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RE: IMPORTANT VIRUS WARNING !!!

If this information came from IBM, why is there no contact
number/address, for further information?  These warnings came through
our organization a few weeks ago, and the upshot was that both "viruses"
were hoaxes.  For more information, you can visit either the Symantec
(makers of Norton AntiVirus) web site, at
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/data/penpal.html, or the McAfee web
site (makers of Viruscan) at http://www.mcafee.com.  I won't bother
quoting from these sites; suffice it to say that the Informatics staff
of Environment Canada (my employer) have done so to my satisfaction.

Eric Woodsworth
Saskatoon Brass Band

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>From: Steven Booth[SMTP:StevenBooth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: May 14, 1997 12:52 PM
>To: Brass Band Mailing List
>Subject: IMPORTANT VIRUS WARNING !!!
>
>Please note the following important virus warning. This information has
>come from IBM.
>
>There is a dangerous virus propogating across the Internet through an EMail
>message entitled PENPAL GREETINGS.
>
>If anyone receives mail entitled PENPAL GREETINGS - DELETE it WITHOUT
>reading it !!!!!
>
>***** DO NOT download any message entitled PENPAL GREETINGS ********
>
>This message contains a Trojan Horse virus which will immediately infect
>the boot sector of your hard drive and destroy all data present.
>
>It is also a self-replicating virus and, once read will AUTOMATICALLY
>forward itself to ANYONE whose EMail address is present in YOUR mailbox.
>
>This virus will DESTROY your hard drive and holds the potential to also
>destroy the hard drive of anyone whose mail is in your inbox.
>
>Please pass this message around to anyone that has access to the Internet
>so that this virus does not spread.
>
>+++++++++++++++++
>There is apparently also a virus around called "AOL4FREE", and variations
>on this, offering free Internet services. The effects of these are unknown,
>but I suggest you avoid these also.
>+++++++++++++++++
>
>Steven Booth
>
>
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