"BURMANET: VIRUS WARNING" (r)

[Mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

This is of course bollocks!

In message <9703121300.AA1598@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
com.com>, Winston_Lee@xxxxxxx writes
>From: Winston Lee <Winston_Lee@xxxxxxx>
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>From: strider @ igc.apc.org         
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>BURMANET: VIRUS WARNING
>March 11, 1997
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>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!" 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 mailbox. This will destroy your hard drive, and 
>holds the potential to destroy the hard drive of anyone whose mail is in your 
>Inbox, and who's mail is in their Inbox and so on.  Pass this message along to 
>all of your friends, relatives and the other readers of the newsgroups and 
>mailing lists which you are on so that they are not hurt by this virus.
>
>Library Automation Services
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>Strider & other BurmaNet readers:
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>I could be wrong but I suspect this is kinda a hoax.  No viruses can be spread 
>just by simply reading an email unless there was an .exe, .url, .link, etc. 
>file attached.  Even w/ this, as long as you don't detach the file nutin will 
>happen.
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>I would ques the source of this email.  Internet rumors are quite ambiguous 
>easily spreadable.  Whether this "Penpal Greetings" is true or not, be wary of 
>stuff you heard/read on the Net...
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>Ques the source & "timing", do some homework, be skeptical & most important of 
>all, use common sense & apply some logic.

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Michael S. Edie is 
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