Virus Alert

[Eugene Khayutin]

Hi everyone....  This was passed to me by a friend.

Eugene Khayutin

> Hi Everyone;
>
> Here is the full explaination of the e-mail virus I sent you a few weeks ago.
>
> 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
> youread 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.
>
>
> ttfn
>
> ziggy
> LT