Mon, 26 Jan 1998 17:01:17 +0100 (MET) - Message No. 2052
From: Torsten Metzner

Subject: Re: Achtung Virus


|>> If you receive an email titled "JOIN THE CREW" DO NOT open it.
|>> It will erase everything on your hard drive. Forward this letter out
|>> to as many people as you can. This is a new, very malicious virus and
|
|>> not many people know about it. This information was announced
|>> yesterday morning from IBM; please share it with everyone that might
|>> access the internet.  Once again, pass this along to EVERYONE in your
|
|>> address book so that this may be stopped. Also, do not open or  even
|>> look at any mail that says "RETURNED OR UNABLE TO DELIVERY"
|This  virus will attach itself to your computer components and render
|them useless. Immediately delete any mail items that say this.
|AOL has said that this is a very dangerous virus and that there is NO
|remedy for it at this time. Please practice cautionary measures and
|forward this to all users.

Oh noooo not for the ... time the same unnecessary virus warning. 
This warning comes every year in a somehow other variation but it 
doesn't become more true in this case.
If you get such a warning by a SysAdmin just shot him otherwise just
ignore the warning. {;-)

ToM

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