Fw: virus alert (fwd)

["vu" <vu@as.nida.ac.th>]

> IMPORTANT VIRUS ALERT!!!!   PLEASE REPOST BROADLY.....
> 
> >>Thi is a message sent by IBM about a virus. Read it.
> >>
> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------
> >> -
> >>
> >> This information was received this morning from IBM, please share
> >> it with anyone that might access the Internet:
> >>
> >> If anyone receives mail entitled; PENPAL GREETINGS! please
> >> delete it WITHOUT reading it!!  This is a warning for all Internet
> >> users - there is a dangerous virus propagating across the Internet
> >> through an e-mail  message entitled 'PENPAL GREETINGS!". DO NOT
> >> DOWNLOAD
> ANY
> >> MESSAGE
> >> ENTITLED "PENPAL GREETINGS"!!  This message 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. The "trojan horse" virus
> >> will have already infected the boot sector of your hard drive,
> >> destroying all of 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 mailbox!
> >>
> >> This virus will DESTROY your hard drive, and holds the potential to
> >> DESTROY the hard drive of anyone whose mail is in your in box, and
> >> who's mail
> is
> >> in
> >> their in box and so on.  If this virus keeps getting passed, it has
> >> the potential to do a great deal of DAMAGE to computer  networks
> >> worldwide!!!!
> >>
> >> Please, delete the message entitled "PENPAL GREETINGS!" as soon as
> you
> >> see
> >> it!  And pass this message along to all of your friends,relatives
> >> and the other readers of the newsgroups and mailing lists which you
> >> are on
> so
> >> that
> >> they are not hurt by this dangerous virus!!!!
> >>
> >> Please pass this along to everyone you know so this can be stopped.
> >>
> >> ------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Sophie Louveaux
> Centre de Recherches Informatique et Droit
> 5 Rempart de la Vierge
> B-5000 Namur, BELGIUM
> Tel : 081 72 47 69 - 72 47 72
> 
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