[12904] in North American Network Operators' Group
Yet another virus hoax
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeremy Elson)
Thu Oct 16 14:23:10 1997
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 14:09:58 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jeremy Elson <jelson@helix.nih.gov>
To: nanog@merit.edu
cc: Jeremy Elson <jelson@helix.nih.gov>
Just FYI: it looks like another Good Times-esque fake "virus warning" is
going around. Like all the others before it, is being forwarded all over
the place by good samaratins who don't realize that it's almost certainly
fake. Unfortunately I don't know where it originated because it was
forwarded to me with all the headers of the original message stripped.
My apologies in advance if this isn't operational enough to warrant
posting here.
-Jeremy
---- Forwarded Message ----
>Subj: VIRUS WARNING!!!!
>
>WARNING!!! If you receive an email titled" JOIN THE CREW" DONOT OPEN IT!!
> It will erase EVERYTHING on your hard drive. Send this letter out to as
>many people as you can..this is a new virus and not many people know about
>it. This message was received this AM at the U.S. Military Academy from IBM
>and the Army National Guard. Please share it with anyone that might access
>the Internet!
