Received from: [log in to unmask] > >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. > >This is a hoax. The Datafellows index of viruses says: > >NAME: > Penpal greetings > > This is not a virus, but a widespread hoax, warning about a dangerous >e-mail message titled 'Penpal greetings'. No such danger exists. > > This hoax is very similar to Good Times. > >More information is available from: > >http://www.datafellows.fi/v-descs/penpal.htm > >________________________________________________________________ >Lary Jones % School of Management Research Support >Computing Services % [log in to unmask] >Binghamton University % [log in to unmask] >Binghamton, NY 13902-6000 % (607) 777-2879 > >