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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
------- Forwarded Message Follows -------
>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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Tobias Rademann
Ruhr University Bochum | Ruhr University Bochum
Department for English and American Studies | Faculty for Economics
GB 6 / 37 | GC 3 /153
Universitaetsstrasse 150 |
D-44780 Bochum |
Germany |
Ph. +49-234-7002518 | Ph. +49-234-7005366
Fax +49-234-7094264 | Fax +49-234-707716
WWW: http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/www-public/rademtbu/private/tr_hp.htm
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