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Re: An E-Mail Virus Alert (fwd)
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FYI, FYI, FYI
D. Barton Johnson
Department of Germanic, Slavic and Semitic Studies
Phelps Hall
University of California at Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Phone and Fax: (805) 687-1825
Home Phone: (805) 682-4618
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 11:51:58 -0500 (EST)
From: Benjamin Sher <sher07@bellsouth.net>
To: chtodel@humanitas.ucsb.edu
Subject: Re: An E-Mail Virus Alert
>Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 10:20:39 -0600
>Reply-To: theatre@lists.Princeton.EDU
>Sender: owner-theatre@lists.Princeton.EDU
>From: jharris@culver.edu (Joseph C. Harris)
>To: The Theatre Discussion List <theatre@lists.Princeton.EDU>
>Subject: Re: An E-Mail Virus Alert
>X-Sender: jharris@moses.culver.edu
>X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN
>
>Dear List Friends,
>
>We received this message from our network administrator today and I wanted
>to share it with you. Its possible impact should be obvious.
>
>The message follows.......
>
>If anyone receives an e-mail entitled "Penpal Greetings" delete it
>immediately WITHOUT reading it. This message appears to be a friendly
>letter asking you if you are interested in a penpal, but by the time you
>finish reading the message, the dangerous "trojan horse" virus will already
>have infected the boot sector of your hard drive, destroying all 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 is present in your
>mailbox! This virus will destroy your hard drive and holds the potential to
>destroy the hard drive of anyone whose e-mail is in your inbox and whose
>mail is in their inbox, and so on and so on . . . Obviously this virus has
>the potential to do a great deal of damage to computer networks worldwide.
>Please delete th message entitled "penpal Greetings" as soon as you see it!
>Pass this message along to computer user friends and relatives.
>
>
>
>It is unfortunate that such things are the reality of this electronic age,
>but......So it goes!
>
>So please beware!
>
>***************************************
>Joseph C. Harris
>Associate Professor of Theatre Arts
>Designer/Technical Director
>Culver-Stockton College
>Canton, Mo 63435
>e-mail---jharris@culver.edu
>fax------217-231-6617
>phone----217-231-6373 (wk)
>***************************************
>
>
>
Benjamin and Anna Sher
sher07@bellsouth.net
Tel: 504/866-3686
Fax: 504/866-3729
D. Barton Johnson
Department of Germanic, Slavic and Semitic Studies
Phelps Hall
University of California at Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Phone and Fax: (805) 687-1825
Home Phone: (805) 682-4618
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 11:51:58 -0500 (EST)
From: Benjamin Sher <sher07@bellsouth.net>
To: chtodel@humanitas.ucsb.edu
Subject: Re: An E-Mail Virus Alert
>Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 10:20:39 -0600
>Reply-To: theatre@lists.Princeton.EDU
>Sender: owner-theatre@lists.Princeton.EDU
>From: jharris@culver.edu (Joseph C. Harris)
>To: The Theatre Discussion List <theatre@lists.Princeton.EDU>
>Subject: Re: An E-Mail Virus Alert
>X-Sender: jharris@moses.culver.edu
>X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN
>
>Dear List Friends,
>
>We received this message from our network administrator today and I wanted
>to share it with you. Its possible impact should be obvious.
>
>The message follows.......
>
>If anyone receives an e-mail entitled "Penpal Greetings" delete it
>immediately WITHOUT reading it. This message appears to be a friendly
>letter asking you if you are interested in a penpal, but by the time you
>finish reading the message, the dangerous "trojan horse" virus will already
>have infected the boot sector of your hard drive, destroying all 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 is present in your
>mailbox! This virus will destroy your hard drive and holds the potential to
>destroy the hard drive of anyone whose e-mail is in your inbox and whose
>mail is in their inbox, and so on and so on . . . Obviously this virus has
>the potential to do a great deal of damage to computer networks worldwide.
>Please delete th message entitled "penpal Greetings" as soon as you see it!
>Pass this message along to computer user friends and relatives.
>
>
>
>It is unfortunate that such things are the reality of this electronic age,
>but......So it goes!
>
>So please beware!
>
>***************************************
>Joseph C. Harris
>Associate Professor of Theatre Arts
>Designer/Technical Director
>Culver-Stockton College
>Canton, Mo 63435
>e-mail---jharris@culver.edu
>fax------217-231-6617
>phone----217-231-6373 (wk)
>***************************************
>
>
>
Benjamin and Anna Sher
sher07@bellsouth.net
Tel: 504/866-3686
Fax: 504/866-3729