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>At 9:28 AM +0800 3/25/97, David Hough wrote:
>>Dear Ranjit
>>
>>Just alerting you to a potentially deadly computer virus.
>>
>>>>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. 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.
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>This is a hoax. The Datafellows index of viruses says:
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>NAME:
>           Penpal greetings
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>  This is not a virus, but a widespread hoax, warning about a dangerous
>e-mail message titled 'Penpal greetings'. No such danger exists.
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>  This hoax is very similar to Good Times.
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>More information is available from:
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>http://www.datafellows.fi/v-descs/penpal.htm
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