Silvano Zambon wrote:
> 
>  Hello all,
>  I have just received this message and spread it because it seems important:
> 
>  If you receive an e-mail titled  "join the crew",  don't open and delete!
>  It contains a new virus who destroys the files in Hard Drive.
> 
>  If you receive an e-mail titled  "penpal greetings",  don't open and delete!
>  It contains a new virus which corrupt the boot sector and send itself
>  to the address contained in your mail box. This virus in theory can
>  damage all the web.
> 
>  I don't know if the mailing-list is already protected from such viruses, and
>  neither if the message is true, in any case I decided to warn.
> 
>  Silvano Zambon
>  s.zambon@rdn.it

Arghh! Not again! This is complete nonsense. No virus can be activated
by opening an e-mail. The warning itself is the virus, and the only harm
it does is wasting bandwidth.

-- 
Bernd Eggink
Regionales Rechenzentrum der Universitaet Hamburg
eggink@rrz.uni-hamburg.de
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