heres one of those virus warnings... dont know if its true...but no
point taking the chance....
quoted 75 lines Subject: Virus Warning...If you have not seen thi
> Subject: Virus Warning...If you have not seen thi
>
> Original Subject:
> Virus Warning...If you have not seen this, please read.
>
> Just a few words of warning:
>
> There are several new viruses coming in mail entitled
> (1)"JOIN THE CREW"
> (2)"PENPAL GREETINGS"
> (3)"Returned or Unable to Deliver"
>
> This information was received from IBM, please share it with anyone
> that
> might access the Internet.
> WARNING!!!!!! If you receive an e-mail titled "JOIN THE CREW" DO NOT
> open
> it.It will erase EVERYTHING on your hard drive! Send this letter out
> to
> as
> many people you can........this is a new virus and not many people
> know
> about it!
> 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
> this
> an
> e-mail message entitled "PENPAL GREETINGS"
> DO NOT DOWNLOAD ANY MESSAGE ENTITLED "PENPAL GREETINGS"
> This appears to be a friendly letter asking if you are interested in a
>
> penpal,but by the time you read this letter it is too late. The Trojan
>
> horse virus will have already infected the boot sector of your hard
> drive,
> destroying all of the data present.
> It is a self-replacing virus and once the message is read it will
> AUTOMATICALLY forward itself to anyone who's e-mail address is present
> in
> YOUR mailbox.
> This virus will destroy your hard drive and holds the potential to
> DESTROY
> the hard drive of anyone whose mail is in your in-box and whose mail
> is
> in
> their in-box and so on.
> If this virus keeps getting passed it has the potential to do a great
> deal
> of DAMAGE to computer networks world-wide!!!!
> Please delete the message entitled "PENPAL GREETINGS"
> as soon as you see it. And pass this message along to all of your
> friends,
> relatives and other readers of the newsgroups and mailing lists which
> you
> are on so that they are not hurt by this dangerous virus.
> DO NOT open or even look at any mail that you get that says
> "Returned or Unable to Deliver" This virus will attach itself to your
> computer components and render them useless. Immediately delete any
> mail
> items that says this.
> AOL has said this is a very dangerous virus and there is NO remedy for
> it
> at this time.
> Please Be Careful, and forward to all your on-line friends A.S.A.P.
>
> This was forwarded to me from Rick at Bandtrax, please forward onwards
> to
> all your friends and pets.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bill
>
> Genius, Webguy, Generally Deranged Musician, etc...