Virus Alert!
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Virus Alert!
This is a message from "Sonny M. Ashimori" <sonny@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Dear List Friends,
Ie received this message from a friend who is a network SysOp (a Mac only
group) today, and I wanted to share it with you.
>If anyone receives an e-mail entitled "Penpal Greetings" delete it
>immediately WITHOUT reading it. This message appears to be a friendly
>letter asking you if you are interested in a penpal, but by the time you
>finish reading the message, the dangerous "trojan horse" virus will already
>have 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 is present in your
>mailbox! This virus will destroy your hard drive and holds the potential to
>destroy the hard drive of anyone whose e-mail is in your inbox and whose
>mail is in their inbox, and so on and so on . . . Obviously this virus has
>the potential to do a great deal of damage to computer networks worldwide.
>Please delete th message entitled "penpal Greetings" as soon as you see it!
>Pass this message along to computer user friends and relatives.
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Sonny M. Ashimori
<mailto: sonny@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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