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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!EU.net!Norway.EU.net!usenet From: brataas@sn.no (John Brataas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.newton.misc,comp.sys.newton.programmer,comp.sys.next.advocacy,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.sys.next.marketplace,comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen,comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy,comp.sys.powerpc.tech,comp.sys.sgi.admin,comp.sys.sgi.apps,comp.sys.sgi.graphics,comp.sys.sgi.hardware,comp.sys.sinclair,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.sys.sun.wanted,comp.sys.tandy,comp.text.frame,comp.text.pdf,comp.text.sgml,comp.text.tex,comp.u nix.admin,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.aix,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.osf.osf1,comp.unix.programmer,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.sco.misc,comp.unix.shell Subject: Re: PENPAL GREETINGS! (was Re: VIRUS ALERT) Date: Thu, 02 Jan 1997 13:04:03 GMT Organization: SOUND-tec Lines: 33 Message-ID: <5agbo5$9me@elle.eunet.no> References: <59nb2t$eck@news3.texas.net> <59nmve$phs@synthemesc.insync.net> <5a0u8u$ck1@hunter.premier.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: ns.falch.no X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.sys.newton.misc:73395 comp.sys.newton.programmer:14818 comp.sys.next.advocacy:47178 comp.sys.next.hardware:25381 comp.sys.next.marketplace:14139 comp.sys.next.misc:41832 comp.sys.next.software:25911 comp.sys.palmtops:61351 comp.sys.pen:13769 comp.sys.powerpc.advocacy:13954 comp.sys.powerpc.tech:3795 comp.sys.sgi.admin:40749 comp.sys.sgi.apps:13048 comp.sys.sgi.graphics:15964 comp.sys.sgi.hardware:23407 comp.sys.sinclair:29113 comp.sys.sun.admin:80178 comp.sys.sun.hardware:4 2813 comp.sys.sun.misc:27717 comp.sys.sun.wanted:16706 comp.sys.tandy:16555 comp.text.frame:20058 comp.text.pdf:5912 comp.text.sgml:14528 comp.text.tex:95899 comp.unix.admin:52780 comp.unix.advocacy:32651 comp.unix.aix:91308 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33480 comp.unix.misc:27376 comp.unix.osf.osf1:17234 comp.unix.programmer:48270 comp.unix.questions:93640 comp.unix.sco.misc:32131 comp.unix.shell:40596 battleaxe@cwc.lsu.edu (Scott Hoppe) wrote: > >In article <59nb2t$eck@news3.texas.net>, jmh@intrepid.net (Little John) > wrote: > >>Subject: Fw: IMPORTANT! virus alert - " Trojan Horse" -Forwarded > >>Date: Monday, December 09, 1996 9:37 PM > >> > >>Subject: Virus Alert > >>Importance: High > >> > >>If anyone receives mail entitled: PENPAL > >>GREETINGS! ; please delete it > >>WITHOUT reading it. > In article <59nmve$phs@synthemesc.insync.net>, mtm@insync.net says... > > > >What is this? Another "Good Time's Virus" scare? This is crazy. Email can't > >contain a virus. Maybe a binary attachment, but then you have to actually > run > >it. Someday these people will learn.... > > > They completely missed the joke this time, because the original poster didn't > use the Subject: 'PENPAL GREETINGS!'. "Don't read the messages sendt to you by the obnoxious persons johnb@falch.no and janr@falch.no. If you open this message on a Windows PC you will enable a virus that force you to type "I will rather use a Macintosh" once evey 5 minutes. If you don't follow theese instructions the virus will spinn up you CD or floppy to 95.000 rpm. and slice your PC into two halfs. Forward this info to everyone you know - even your mother in law"