Hello Everyone, Please read the following message carefully. It is very important and could cause a lot of damage if regarded lightly. Thanks Sridhar ---------- Subject: Potential virus Date: Monday, March 10, 1997 7:04PM For all Internet user: Please read the following carefully: This info. was received from IBM, please share it with anyone that might access the Internet: If any one receives mail entitled: PENPAL GREETINGS ! please delete if WITHOUT reading it !! This is a warning for all Internet user - there is a danderous virus propagating across the Internet through an e-mail message entitled "PENPAL GREETINGS!". DO NOT DOWNLOAD ANY MESSAGE ENTITLED "PENPAL GREETINGS"!! This msg. appears to be a friendly letter asking 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 msg. is read, it will AUTOMATICALLY forward itself to anyone who's e-mail address is present in YOUR MAIL BOX! This virus will DESTROY your hard drive, and holds the potencial to DESTROY the hard drive of anyone whose e-mail is un your in-box, and who's mail is in their box and so on. If this virus keeps getting passed, it has the potential to do a great deal of DAMAGE to computers networks worldwide !!!!! Please, delete the message entitled "PENPAL GREETINGS!" as soon as you see it! And pass this msg. along to your friends and other readers of the news groups 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.