Join the Crew/Penpals
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This is a hoax. For more information see:
http://urbanlegends.about.com/science/urbanlegends/library/weekly/aa091497.htm
or http://www.kumite.com/myths/fas/fas-gt.htm
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WARNING!!!!!!!
If you receive an e-mail titiled..JOIN THE CREW… /for PENPALS, DO
NOT open it!!!!! It will erase EVERYTHING on your hard drive! Send this
letter out to as many people as you can….this is a new virus and not many
people know about it!! This information was received this morning by IBM,
Please share it with anyone that might access the internet!!!
PENPAL 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 harddrive, destroying all 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 box!!!
This virus will destroy your hard drive and holds the potential to
DESTROY the hard drive of anyone whose mail is in your box and whose mail is
in their box and so on and on!!!!!!
So delete any message titled PENPAL or JOIN THE CREW…….this virus can do
major DAMAGE to worldwide networks!!!!
PLEASE PASS THIS ALONG TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS AND PEOPLE IN
YOUR MAILBOXES………AOL….. HAS SAID THIS IS A VERY
DANGEROUS VIRUS AND THERE IS NO REMEDY FOR THIS……..
FORWARD IT TO ALL YOUR ON-LINE
FRIENDS……………A.S.A.P.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
