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Re: Watch viruses

To: brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Watch viruses
From: Tom Sheridan <Tom.Sheridan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 14:05:07 GMT
Cc: Tom.Sheridan@xxxxxxxxxx
Priority: low
Reply-to: brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Edy van Asch wrote:

> Today I heard from IBM some brand new viruses have shown up.
> If anybody should receive an E-mail with subject 'JOIN THE CREW' or 'PENPAL
> GREETING', don't open it. If you do, it destroys everything on your hard disk.
> The last mail contains a virus called 'Trojan horse', the first has no name yet.
> The Trojan horse seems to mail itself to all addresses it can find in your
> post-offices.
> 
> No solution is found yet to destroy any of them, nor is any virus-scanner
> watching them.
> Please be careful, I am not joking.

Edy,

I'm sure you have everyone's interest at heart, but I'm sorry to tell 
you that this message is a hoax. This hoax is as old as the Internet.  
The original title we all had to watch for was 'GOOD TIMES'.  Then it 
changed to 'PENPAL GREETING' - or 'PENAL GREETING' if someone ran it 
through a spell-checker :). The latest incarnation is 'JOIN THE CREW', 
but the idea is the same.

Your hard disk can not be accessed by reading an email message.

However, if you *run* an executable file *attached* to an email, you 
could have problems.  Don't touch them with a bargepole, unless you 
*know* they are OK.

For the full story on this and other email hoaxes, including the 
'hundreds-of-dollars cookie recipe' and the 'dying kid who wants 
postcards', etc., see 

http://www.nonprofit.net/hoax/hoax.html

Tom Sheridan
Percussionist
Manchester, UK

tom.sheridan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Antispam: remove the numbers to get my email address

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