Re: Virus Alert!

[Larry Cunningham <larryc@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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The warning below is a hoax (and an old one at that).  Sonny, I'm not
accusing you of pulling a hoax, it's just that the information you received
is totally wrong.

No-one has yet found a way to spread a virus in the body of an E-mail
message, at least not on the Windows or Macintosh platforms.  You should
always be wary of binary ATTACHMENTS that may come with a message, but the
message body itself can't do any damage at all.

This hoax, more often referred to as the "Good Times" virus hoax, has
reached the status of an urban legend....

--Larry Cunningham


At 02:16 AM 2/15/97 +0900, you wrote:
>This is a message from "Sonny M. Ashimori" <sonny@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>Dear List Friends,
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>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.
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>>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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