Childrens' books and Virus Warning

[Don Rose]

Hi All,

Subject: children books & VIRUS WARNING!!!

This has been verififed to be true. The email doesn't even have to say
anything.... the Houghton-Mifflin publishing co. is giving books to children's
hospitals; how many books they give depends on how many emails they receive
from people around the world.  for every 25 emails they receive, they give one
book. All you have to do is email share@hmco.com, and put "Books for Kids" in
the subject field.  Hope you can spare the seconds...and let your friends know.
So far they only have 3, 400 messages...last year they reached 23,000.


--- Forwarded Message from somebody trustworthy in New York City ---


VIRUS WARNING

This information was received this morning from IBM, please share it with
anyone that might access the Internet.
If anyone receives mail entitled:  PENPAL GREETINGS!     Please delete it
WITHOUT
reading it.  ON NO ACCOUNT BE TEMPTED TO OPEN AND READ THE MESSAGE.

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 OPEN ANY MESSAGE ENTITLED "PENPAL GREETINGS!"  The
message appears to be a friendly letter asking you if you are interested in a
penpal, but by the time you open it to read it, 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-propagating virus, and once
the message is read, it will AUTOMATICALLY forward itself to anyone whose
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 whose 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.




Regards, Don Rose (drose@dlcwest.com)