I received a false alarm...
Sorry.
Gomes
>At 10:55 AM 11/28/97 -0300, I wrote:
>>Dear Friends,
>>>
>>>Today, I received a message, followed by IBM, about an email virus:
>>>
>>>The "Trojan Horse"
>>>
>>>It apparently comes with the following email messages (there may be
>>possibly other):
>>>
>>>>>> PENPAL GREETINGS
>>>>>> Join the Crew
>>>>>> RETURNED OR UNABLE TO LIVER
>
>
>Dear Prof Gomes
>
>The above is a hoax warning, which emerges every six months or so. Penpal
>Greetings and Join The Crew warnings are common now. In a way, these
>warnings are themselves a form of virus: they cause people to reproduce
>them....
>
>These warnings usually are accompanied by (a) references to IBM or FBI or
>some authority; (b) warnings that theyw will destroy your hard disk or
>similar (which is impossible for an attached file unless it is an .exe or
>similar file attached, which you open and run).
>
>Thank you for your warning to the network, though; it could have been true,
>in which case the warning would have been valuable.
>
>Dr Heather Greer
>NRL
>Ireland
>
> Heather Greer <greerh@iol.ie>
>