source file: mills2.txt Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 08:38:30 -0800 Subject: VIRUS From: "Adam B. Silverman" >From: TheNay@aol.com >Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 20:19:43 -0500 (EST) >To: TrndSettr@aol.com, cooper_steven@bns.att.com, kbrowne@ucla.edu, > scallen@ix.netcom.com, MERTENS@hbi-stuttgart.de, ChrisofCMC@aol.com, > 106232.3266@compuserve.com, abs22@pantheon.yale.edu, reinhard@ios.com, > drummond@brick.purchase.edu, Larry.Polanski@dartmouth.edu, > jak@maestro.com, drnerve@ingress.com, lippe@acsu.buffalo.edu, > kmsipel@slip.net, kgann@earthlink.net, garton@columbia.edu, > ncrandal@webnology.com >Subject: VIRUS > >The following is a message I received, which I'm forwarding to everyone on my >mailing list: > > > >> Forwarded message: >> Subj: VIRUSE INFO >> Date: 96-12-28 21:13:02 EST >> From: CrHil510 >> To: Me B fast >> >> - READ! If anyone receives mail entitled "PENPAL GREETINGS", delete >> it WITHOUT reading it. Below is an explanation of why and what it would >do >> to your PC if you open and read the message. 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 the 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 inbox, and who's mail is in their inbox, >and >> >> so on. If this virus remains unchecked, 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. Pass this >> message along to all of your friends and relatives and other readers of >the >> newsgroups and mailing lists which you are on so that they are not hurt >by >> this dangerous virus!!!! > _________________ Adam B. Silverman 153 Cold Spring Street; A3 New Haven, CT 06511 (203) 782-1765 abs22@pantheon.yale.edu Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Thu, 13 Mar 1997 17:46 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA10077; Thu, 13 Mar 1997 17:46:37 +0100 Received: from ella.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA10074 Received: from by ella.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) id IAA15614; Thu, 13 Mar 1997 08:44:48 -0800 Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 08:44:48 -0800 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@ella.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@ella.mills.edu