This message was forwarded to me by a friend who works for the
CT Dept. of Education. It was sent to all in that department
by their systems director, so is valid.
Karen Mangle
Educator/consultant
Manchester, CT
>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.