Melentie Pandilovski on Thu, 10 Apr 1997 08:23:08 +0200 (MET DST) |
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<nettime> Bad Virus |
Hi, This is a message from our System Engineer Krume Dolnenec. Melentie ---------------------------------------------- Bad Virus!! Beware everyone! This information was received this morning from IBM, please share it with anyone that might access the Internet: If anyone receives e-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 the 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 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 worldwide!!!! Please, delete the message entitled "PENPAL GREETINGS!" AS SOON AS YOU SEE IT! Pass this message along to all of your friends and 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. :-:-:-:-:-: Ciao, Krume Melentie Pandilovski assistant director Soros Center for Contemporary Arts - Skopje Ruzveltova 34 91000 Skopje, Republic of Macedonia Tel/Fax: 389.91.361.855 e-mail: mpandil@soros.org.mk scca@soros.org.mk http://www.soros.org.mk --- # distributed via nettime-l : no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a closed moderated mailinglist for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@icf.de and "info nettime" in the msg body # URL: http://www.desk.nl/~nettime/ contact: nettime-owner@icf.de