Does anyone know whether this kind of virus is really possible??
--glenn
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> Forwarded message: Dr. Lynn suggested that this message be passed on to
everyone in Zoology.
There are two virus messages received recently.
This message is being forwarded FYI. Let anyone else you think might be
at risk know. This information was received this morning from IBM, please
share it with anyone that might access the Internet:
1. 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 information was received from IBM.
2. If anyone receives e-mail entitled "PENPAL GREETINGS!" please delete it
WITHOUT READING IT!! Do NOT download or open 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!
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!
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Glenn D. Humphreys
P.O. Box 11
Echo Bay, Ontario
Canada, P0S 1C0
Telephone: (705) 248-1226
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