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>>WARNING!!!!!! If you receive an e-mail titled "JOIN THE  CREW"
>>     DO NOT
>>     open it!
>>     It will erase EVERYTHING on your hard drive! Send this letter
>>     out to as
>>     many people you can.......this is a new virus and not many
>>     people know
>>     about it!
>>     This information was received this morning from IBM, please
>>     share it
>>     with anyone that might access the Internet.
>>     Also,
>>     If anyone receives 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 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, and once the message is read, it will
>>     AUTOMATICALLY forward itself to anyone who's 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 who's
>>     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!  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 so that they are not hurt by this dangerous virus!!!! Please 
>pass
>>     this along to everyone you know so this can be stopped.
>>     PASS THIS ON TO YOUR FRIENDS!!! WARNING !!!
>>     There is a new virus going arround in the last couple of days!!!
>>     DO NOT open or even look at any mail that you get that says:
>>     "Returned
>>     or Unable to Deliver" This virus will attach itself to your
>>     computer
>>     components and render them useless. Immediately delete any mail
>>     items
>>     that says this. AOL has said this is a very dangerous virus,
>>     and there
>>     is NO remedy for it at this time, Please Be Careful, And
>>     forward to
>>     all your on-line friends A.S.A.P.
>>     Forward this A.S.A.P. to every single person you know!!!!!!!!!