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Subject: Fwd: VIRUS alert
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 1997 18:47:09 -0400 (EDT)


I've tried to keep you free of this virus stuff, but its getting pretty bad,
so here's some info. I don't think we are affected because we have private
lists, but you never know.

Pat
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Forwarded message:
From: (Stephen P. Cohen, M.S., MBA)
Resent-from:
To: (Stephen P. Cohen, m.s., m.b.a.)
Date: 97-08-22 08:33:15 EDT

Hello everyone,

I'm sorry if some of you receive duplicates of this message, but I thought
that it was important enough to make sure that everyone in my e-mail address
books received it. Steve (my husband) just forward the following message to
me. I have deleted part of it as it was a LONG list of e-mail addresses from

it being forwarded from one location to another.

***************************************

The attached virus alert was forwarded to me at the beginning
of a long chain of forwarded messages. All the originators of
these messages check out as valid WorldCom employees.

Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 11:05:05 -0500
From: Nina Draney <>
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Subject: Virus Alert.

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 who's 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
who's
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! 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 hurt by this dangerous virus!!!!

Please pass this along to everyone you know so this can be stopped.
PASS THIS ON TO YOUR FRIENDS!!! WARNING !!!
There is a new virus going arround 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 says this. AOL has said this is a very danderous 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!!!!!!!!!

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