Virus HOAXES: PENPAL GREETINGS! et al.

[Barbara Passmore <>]

Hi,

Please see the United States Department of Energy's page on computer hoaxes:

http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACHoaxes.html

Hoaxes described on this page: PKZ300, Irina, Good Times, Good Times Spoof,
Deeyenda, Ghost, PENPAL GREETINGS!, Make Money Fast, NaughtyRobot,
AOL4FREE, Join the Crew

Last modified: Thursday, 04-Sep-97 14:16:48 PDT   


The US Government Department of Energy says the notice going around
(identical to the one posted to this list) is a hoax:

(excerpt)
PENPAL GREETINGS! Warning Hoax

The PENPAL GREETINGS! Hoax shown below appears to be an attempt to kill an
e-mail chain letter by claiming that it is a self starting Trojan that
destroys your hard drive and then sends copies of itself to everyone whose
address in in your mailbox. Reading an e-mail message does not run it nor
does it run any attachments, so this Trojan must be self starting. Aside
from the fact that a program cannot start itself, the Trojan would also
have to know about every different kind of e-mail program to be able to
forward copies of itself to other people. This warning is totally a hoax.


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Please make a note of the above URL so you can check out future virus
warnings!

Barbara

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