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The latest twit idea about email viruses:

>>Virus Alert
>>
>>If anyone receives mail entitled: PENPAL GREETINGS! please delete it
>>WITHOUT reading it.  Below is a little explanation of the message, and
>>what it would do to your PC if you were to read the message.  
>>
>>This is a warning for all Internet users - there is a dangerous virus
>>propagating across the Internet through an e-mail message entitled
>>"PENPAL GREETINGS!".  DO NOT DOWNLOAD ANY MESSAGE ENTITLED "PENPAL
>>GREETINGS!"
>>
>>This message appears to be a friendly letter asking you 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-replicating
>>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 inbox, and who's mail
>>is
>>in their inbox, and so on.  If this virus remains unchecked, it has the
>>potential to do a great deal of DAMAGE to computer networks worldwide!!!!
>>
>>Please, delete the message entitled "PENPAL GREETINGS!" as soon as you
>>see it!  And pass this message along to all of your friends
>>and relatives, and the other readers of the news groups and mailing lists
>>which
>>you are on, so that they are not hurt by this dangerous virus!!!!
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Joe Zeff
     The Guy With the Sideburns

If you can't play with words, what good are they?