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> >>FYI I received this Virus message this morning.
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> >>>>IMPORTANT!!!!
> >>>>>
> >>>>>     It is essential that this problem be reconciled as soon as
> >>>>> possible.
> >>>>>    
> >>>>>A few hours ago, Someone opened an E-mail that had the subject
> >>>>>heading of ao4free.com Within seconds of opening it, a window appeared
> >>>>>and began to display all files that were being deleted.  The user
> >>>>>immediately shut down the computer, but it was too late.  This virus
> >>>>>wiped all out. It ate the Anti-Virus Software that comes with the
> >>>>>Windows '95 Program along with F-Prot AVS.  Neither was able to detect
> >>>>>it.  Please be careful and send this to as many people as possible, so
> >>>>>maybe this new virus can be eliminated.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>      Please pass this on to anyone you know
> >>>>>
> >>>>>      Thanks
> >>>>>  
> >>>>>
> >>>>>      This information was received this morning from IBM, please share
> >>>>> it with anyone that might access the Internet:
> >>>>>      If anyone receives e-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 the 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!
> >>>>> >
> >>>>> >     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  
> >>>>>whose 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! Pass this message along to all of your friends and 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.
> >>>
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