-----Original Message----- From: William Foxworth <[email protected]> To: Special-Forces <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, January 06, 1999 9:04 PM Subject: SF-LIST: WARNING/WARNING/WARNING - VIRUS ALERT >Guys this was forwarded to me by my Boss at Wells Fargo. Foxy > >Subject: Fw: [Fwd: Fwd: warning] >Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 20:38:57 -0500 > > >WARNING!!!!!!! > If you receive an e-mail titiled..JOIN THE CREW... /for PENPALS DO > NOT open it!!!!! > It will erase EVERYTHING on your hard drive! > Send this letter out to as many people as you can....this is a new > 3D virus and not many people know about it!! This information was > received this morning by IBM, Please share it with anyone that might > access the Internet!!! > PENPAL 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 harddrive, destroying all 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 box!!! This virus will destroy your hard drive and >holds the potential to > DESTROY the hard drive of anyone whose mail is in your box and whose > mail is in their box and so on and on!!!!!! So delete any message >titled PENPAL > or JOIN THE CREW.......this virus can do major DAMAGE to worldwide >networks!!!! > PLEASE PASS THIS ALONG TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS AND PEOPLE IN YOUR > MAILBOXES. AOL HAS SAID THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS VIRUS AND THERE IS > NO REMEDY FOR THIS.. FORWARD IT TO ALL YOUR ON-LINE > FRIENDS...............A.S.A.P.!!!!!! > > >-- >William K. Foxworth >[email protected]