Attention PENPAL virus!

[Christian Dupont <Christian.Y.Dupont.1@nd.edu>]

Greetings,

Friends in Italy have alerted me to the most recent e-mail virus:

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>>>>> IMPORTANT - PLEASE READ
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>>>>>     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.
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>> Marco Pasero
>>>> Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra    Telephone: +39 (0)50 847215
>>>> Universita' di Pisa                    Fax:       +39 (0)50 40976
>>>> Via S. Maria 53                        E-mail:    pasero@dst.unipi.it
>>>> I-56126 PISA
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