Dear  Hal:

Thank you for your virus warning.

Best regards to you, Abbie and Karl.

Dachun

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> From: Haraldur R. Karlsson <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: FW: virus alert - please read
> Date: Thursday, August 21, 1997 7:12 AM
>
> Dear Isotopers,
>
> This message was sent to me from a good friend.
>
> Hal
>
>
> >Friends,
> >
> >----------
> >I got this from a fellow worker here at the Bureau of Economic Geology.
> >
> >Mark Vining
> >
> >! VIRUS ALERT !
> >
> >(1)  WARNING!!!!!! If you receive an e-mail titled "JOIN THE  CREW"
> >DO NOT open it!
> >It will erase EVERYTHING on your hard drive! Send this letter
> >out to as many people you can.......this is a new virus and not many
> >people know about it!  This information was received this morning from
> >IBM, please share it with anyone that might access the Internet.
> >
> >(2)  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.
> >
> >(3)  There is a new virus going arround in the last couple of days!!!
DO
> >NOT open or even look at any mail that you get that says:  "Returned or
> >Unable to Deliver"
> >This virus will attach itself to your computer components and render
them
> >useless. Immediately delete any mail items that says this. AOL has said
> >this is a very dangerous virus, and there is NO remedy for it at this
> >time, Please Be Careful, And forward to all your on-line friends
A.S.A.P.
> >
>
> Dr. Haraldur R. Karlsson
> Associate Professor of Geosciences
> Texas Tech University
> Box 41053
> Lubbock, TX 79409, USA