Sinister: Potential External Virus

[Keith Watson]

>Potential External Virus:
>
>I have received the following message from a contact outside our firm.
>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!".


This one's total toss. Don't worry about it. You're not going to get a virus
by opening an email, running an executable attachment perhaps, but not
viewing a file.

Keith.


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