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Hoax: Join the Crew / PenPals


WARNING Message from IBM

If you receive an e-mail titled "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!

This 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, too, 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 IT AS OF YET.

FORWARD THIS WARNING TO ALL YOUR ON-LINE FRIENDS A.S.A.P.!
Dies ist ein Hoax, eine Falschmeldung.
Bitte verbreiten Sie den Text nicht weiter.