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FW: IMPORTANT; BEWARE (fwd)
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lugnet.robotics.handyboard
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Wed, 11 Dec 1996 14:17:11 GMT
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Todd D. Hopwood <THOPWOOD@WOMBAT.ENGihatespam.FSU.EDU>
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> Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 20:10:16 -0500 (EST)
> From: Debashis Sadhukhan <sadhukha@wombat.eng.fsu.edu>
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> To: jack@wombat.eng.fsu.edu, Tinglun Song <song@wombat.eng.fsu.edu>,
> hopwood todd <thopwood@dingo.eng.fsu.edu>, jeff@wombat.eng.fsu.edu,
> Hong Li <hli@wombat.eng.fsu.edu>,
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> Stephanie Fearon <fearon@wombat.eng.fsu.edu>, mhaik@wombat.eng.fsu.edu
> Subject: FW: IMPORTANT; BEWARE (fwd)
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Tue, 10 Dec 96 14:24:00 est
> From: "Lewis, Bradley M." <lewisbr@schrmt4.sch.ge.com>
> Subject: FW: IMPORTANT; BEWARE
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> Just recieved this, sounds pretty serious. Beware.
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> Brad
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> IF ANYONE RECEIVES EMAIL ENTITLED: "PENPAL GREETINGS!" PLEASE DELETE
> IT WITHOUT READING IT!!!
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> THIS IS A WARNING FOR ALL INTERNET USERS -- THERE IS A DANGEROUS VIRUS
> PROPAGATING ACROSS THE INTERNET THROUGH AN EMAIL MESSAGE ENTITLED
> "PENPAL GREETINGS!"
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> DO NOT DOWNLOAD (READ OR PRINT) ANY MESSAGE ENTITLED "PENPAL
> GREETINGS!"
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> 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.
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> SPECIAL NOTE: ONCE THE MESSAGE IS READ, IT WILL AUTOMATICALLY FORWARD
> ITSELF TO ANYONE WHOSE EMAIL ADDRESS IS PRESENT IN YOUR MAILBOX.
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> THIS VIRUS WILL DESTROY YOUR HARD DRIVE, AND HOLDS THE POTENTIAL TO
> DESTROY THE HARD DRIVE OF ANYONE WHOSE MAIL IS IN YOUR INBOX, AND
> WHOSE MAIL IS IN THEIR INBOX, AND SO ON. IF THIS VIRUS REMAINS
> UNCHECKED, IT HAS THE POTENTIAL TO DO A GREAT DEAL OF DAMAGE TO
> COMPUTER COMPUTER NETWORKS WORLDWIDE.
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> DELETE THE MESSAGE AS SOON AS YOU SEE IT. PASS THE WORD TO FRIENDS,
> RELATIVES AND COWORKERS! Not to mention friends!!!
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Todd D. Hopwood
FAMU-FSU College of Engineering
Department of Mechanical Engineering
thopwood@eng.fsu.edu
Office (904)487-6108
Fax (904)487-6337
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: FW: IMPORTANT; BEWARE (fwd)
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| Uh oh. Not this again! OK, for all those that don't know, YOU CANNOT GET A COMPUTER VIRUS BY READING E_MAIL!!!! The "Good-times virus" and apparently now the "Pen-Pal Virus" are just hoaxes!!! Why? For a virus to work it must have executable code. (...) (30 years ago, 11-Dec-96, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
| | | Re: FW: IMPORTANT; BEWARE (fwd)
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| (...) Whoa, isn't this one of the famous Internet hoaxes? There isn't a way for an e-mail message to infect your hard drive. * Michael L. Ross/C33 | Lockheed Engineering & Sciences Co.**** * Robotics Department | 2400 Nasa Rd. 1, Houston, TX (...) (30 years ago, 11-Dec-96, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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