Fw: VIRUS WARNING ! this is for real guys from a friend at Telecom Ireland Admin. Very Important

["Cha cormack" <chamac@domain.elided>]

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> From: JAMES GRIFFIN <griffinj@domain.elided>
> To: SANDY KELLER <ILUVBRIDES@domain.elided>; roy thompson <thompson@domain.elided>;
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> Subject: Fw: VIRUS WARNING ! this is for real guys from a friend at
Telecom Ireland Admin. Very Important
> Date: 26 January 1998 17:35
> 
> 
> 
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> > From: jconneely@domain.elided
> > To: griffinj@domain.elided
> > Subject: FW: VIRUS WARNING !
> > Date: 26 January 1998 17:21
> > 
> > All e-mail users,
> >                 Please read carefully and observe the precautions
> suggested.
> > Regards,John Murphy.
> >
>
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> >  
> > >The London Data Centre has received this VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION
> please 
> > >pass this information on to everyone you know who uses the Internet,
> email, 
> > >etc.
> > >
> > >No remedies are yet available for these particularly nasty Trojan
horse 
> > >virus.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >>> Subject: VIRUS WARNING
> > >>>
> > >>> >> >   Important Notice
> > >>> >
> > >>> >WARNING!  If you receive an e-mail titled, "JOIN THE CREW", do not

> > >>> >open it! It will erase EVERYTHING on your hard drive.  Send this
> > >>> >letter out to as many people you can..this is a new virus and not
> many 
> > >>> >people know about it.
> > >>> >
> > >>> >This information was received this morning from IBM, please share 
> > >>> >it with  anyone that might access the Internet.
> > >>> >
> > >>> > Also, 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 whose e-mail address is
> > >>> >present in YOUR mailbox.
> > >>> >
> > >>> > The virus will DESTROY your hard drive and holds the potential to

> > >>> >DESTROY the hard drive of anyone whose mail is in your mailbox and
> > >>> >who's mail is  in  their mailbox 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 harmed by this dangerous virus! 
> > >>> >> >
> > >>> >   Please pass this along to everyone you know so this can be 
> > >>> >stopped.
> > >>> >> >
> > >>> >> >   PASS THIS ON TO YOUR FRIENDS.  WARNING!!!!  This is a new
> virus 
> > >>> >going  around in the last couple of days!  DO NOT open or even
look
> at 
> > >>> >any mail that you get that says:  "Returned or Unable to Deliver".

> This 
> > >>> >virus will attach itself to your computer components and render
them
> > >>> >useless.
> > >>> >>
> > >>> >> > Immediately delete any mail items that say this.  AOL has said
> this 
> > >>> >is a very dangerous virus, and there is NO remedy for it at this
> time. 
> > >>> Please
> > >>> >be careful, and forward to all your on-line friends A.S.A.P. 
> > >>> >> >
> > >>> >> >   FORWARD THIS A.S.A.P. TO EVERY SINGLE PERSON YOU
> KNOW!!!!!!!!!!! 
> > >>
> > >>------- FORWARD, End of original message ------- 
> > >
> > >
> > >Joe Fox (ESN 730 5795)
> > >
> > >For
> > >
> > >London Data Centre
> > >ESN 730 5828
> > >EXT +44 (0)181 945 5828