Dangerous virus (fwd)

Thu, 19 Dec 1996 09:54:13 -0500 (EST)
Linda Minfa Chen (lmc29@columbia.edu)

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Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 00:29:47 -0500
From: Peter Grimes <p34d3611@jhu.edu>
To: WORLD SYSTEMS NETWORK <wsn@csf.colorado.edu>
Subject: Dangerous virus (fwd)

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Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 01:54:20 -0500
From: BARBARA LARCOM <bl0018@epfl2.epflbalto.org>
To: p34d3611@jhu.edu
Subject: Dangerous virus

Below find a forwarded message I ran across in my travels tonight. --

Barb

Topic 197 VIRUS-ALERT
chosso women.dev 7:43 AM Dec
16, 1996
(at travel-net.com)

From: chosso@travel-net.com (M Chossudovsky)

Subject: Virus Alert - PENPAL GREETINGS
Importance: High

If anyone receives mail entitled: PENPAL GREETINGS! please delete it
WITHOUT reading it. Below is a little explanation of the message, and
what it would do to your PC if you were to 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 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 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! And pass this message along to all of your friends and
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!!!!

Michel Chossudovsky

Department of Economics,
University of Ottawa,
Ottawa, K1N6N5

Fax: 1-613-7892050
E-Mail: chosso@travel-net.com
Alternative fax: 1-613-5625999