P3D Re: Warning

[Bob Wier <wier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 2:26 PM -0700 on 1/28/98, Ron Fredrickson wrote:


|>>VIRUS WARNING!!!!!
|>>
|>>If you recieve an email titled "JOIN THE CREW"
|>>DO NOT open it.
|>>
|>>IT WILL ERASE EVERYTHING ON YOUR HARD DRIVE.
|>>
|

Although this is posted with the best of intentions, please DO NOT
do so without checking with the moderators first...

Here's what the DOE/llnl site (which keeps track of such things) has
to say about "Join the Crew" (which is a varient of the "Good Times"
Virus Hoax...)
=====begin quoted material
Join the Crew

Circulating the Internet is an email message entitled "Join the Crew". For a virus to spread, it must be executed. Reading a mail message does not execute
the mail message. Trojans and viruses have been found as executable attachments to mail messages, but they must be extracted and executed to do any
harm. CIAC still affirms that reading E-mail, using typical mail agents, can not activate malicious code delivered in or with the message.

         IMPORTANT - VIRUS Alert!!!


         Take note !

         Someone got an email, titled as JOIN THE CREW.
         It has erased his hard drive.
         Do not open up any mail that has this title.
         It will erase your whole hard drive.
         This is a new email virus and not a lot of people know about it,
         just let everyone  know, so they won't be a victim.

         Please e-mail this to everyone you know!!!
         Remember the title :    JOIN THE CREW

Variants of this email message are circulating the Internet. If you receive an email message entitled "Join the Crew" and it has an attachment, CIAC
recommends that you delete the message and the attachment. If you receive just the message, delete the message. Please DO NOT circulate unvalidated
virus alerts.

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If you are unsure of whether a virus warning is real or not, please
check:

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

THANKS

               Bob Wier
         mailto:wier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  05:13 PM  Wednesday, January 28, 1998
     Rocky Mountain College, Billings MT.
 keeper of the Photo-3d and Overland-Trails
mailing lists and the USA GPS Waypoint server 



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