(Fwd) (Fwd) (Fwd) Virus

["Tobias Rademann" <tobias.rademann _at__ rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>]

Liebe InetBib TeilnehmerInnen,

diese Mitteilung betr. Internet-Virus erhielt ich gerade.
Für den Fall, dass Sie noch nicht informiert sein sollten, wollte ich
sie sicherheitshalber weiterleiten.
MfG,
Tobias Rademann
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>VIRUS WARNING
>>> >
>>This information was received this morning from IBM, please share it
>>with anyone that might access the Internet:
>>If anyone receives mail entitled; PENPAL GREETINGS! Please delete it
>>WITHOUT reading it.  ON NO ACCOUNT BE TEMPTED TO 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 OPEN ANY MESSAGE ENTITLED "PENPAL GREETINGS!".
The
>>message appears to be a  friendly letter asking you if you are
interested
>>in a penpal, but by the  time you open it to read it, 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-propagating
>>virus,and once  the message is read, it will AUTOMATICALLY forward
itself to
>>anyone whose 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 whose 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
world-wide.
>>
>>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.
>>> >
Dr G.R. Rastall
Pro-Dean of the Faculty of Arts
Department of Music,
University of Leeds,
Leeds LS2 9JT
UK

Tel: +44 (0)113 233 2581
Fax: +44 (0)113 233 2586
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/music/DeptInfo/Staff/GRR/grr.html

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