Just passing this infor along in case no one had heard Patti dlang4d@juno.com wrote: > Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 17:41:02 PST > > WARNING Message from IBM > > 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 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 > hard drive, 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.! > > >Wyoming State Governor's Office > > ___________________________________________________________________ > You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. > Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html > or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > GENEALOGY list for Latter-day Saint Genealogists > Please be good to each other. No copyrighted material, please. For help, > visit our website first, at http://www.ldscn.com/, then email help@ldscn.com.