Virus

[Marie Kelly <marie@rpii.ie>]

>Date: Wed, 05 Feb 1997 11:10:02 +0000 (GMT)
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>From: Lina Rodríguez-Rodrigo <Lina.Rodriguez@ciemat.es>
>Subject: Virus
>To: akulina@fp10.gpi.msk.su, sapoz@fp10.gpi.msk.su, fedyanin@fp3.gpi.msk.su,
>    ERNA@ccucvx.unican.es, marie@rpii.ie
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>>X-Sender: sarah@130.194.168.3
>>Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 09:28:36 +1000
>>To: monash_esc
>>From: sarah@artemis.earth.monash.edu.au (Sarah Vaughan)
>>Subject: VIRUS
>>
>> IMPORTANT - PLEASE READ
>>
>>
>>     If anyone receives mail entitled; PENPAL GREETINGS! please delete it
>>     WITHOUT reading it!!  This is a warning for all Internet users - there
>>     is a dangerous virus propagating across the Internet through an e-mail
>>     message entitled 'PENPAL GREETINGS!". DO NOT DOWNLOAD ANY MESSAGE
>>     ENTITLED "PENPAL GREETINGS"!!  This message appears to be a friendly
>>     letter asking you if you are interested in a penpal, but by the time
>>     you read this letter, it is too late. The "trojan horse" virus will
>>     have already infected the boot sector of your hard drive, destroying
>>     all of the data present.  It is a self-replicating virus, and once the
>>     message is read, it will AUTOMATICALLY forward itself to anyone who's
>>     e-mail address is present in YOUR mailbox!
>>
>>     This virus will DESTROY your hard drive, and holds the potential to
>>     DESTROY the hard drive of anyone whose mail is in your in box, and
>>     who's mail is in their in box and so on.  If this virus keeps getting
>>     passed, it has the potential to do a great deal of DAMAGE to computer
>>     networks worldwide!!!!
>>
>>     Please, delete the message entitled "PENPAL GREETINGS!" as soon as you
>>     see it!  And pass this message along to all of your friends, relatives
>>     and the other readers of the newsgroups and mailing lists which you
>>     are on so that they are not hurt by this dangerous virus!!!!
>>
>>     Please pass this along to everyone you know so this can be stopped.
>>
>>
>>___________________________________________________________________
>>Sarah Vaughan                                 __  \
>>Australian Crustal Research Centre         ,~'  L_|\    Australian
>>VIEPS Department of Earth Sciences      ;-'         \   Geodynamics
>>Monash University                       (            \  Cooperative
>>Clayton  Victoria  3168  Australia      +    ___     /  Research
>>                                         L~~'   "\__/   Centre
>>tel:    +61 3 9905 5761                            W
>>fax:    +61 3 9905 5062
>>email:  sarah@artemis.earth.monash.edu.au
>>___________________________________________________________________
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