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List:       gauntlet-user
Subject:    Was: New Virus
From:       Larry Chin <Larry_Chin () ca ! cch ! com>
Date:       1997-11-26 15:23:44
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| FYI,
| WARNING!!!!  If you receive an e-mail titled
| "JOIN THE CREW"
| DO NOT open it!  It will erase EVERYTHING on your hard drive! Send this
| message 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 morning from IBM, and the Army National
| Guard, please share it with anyone that might access the Internet.


>From CIAC: ( http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACHoaxes.html )


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.


Wed Nov 26 10:23:17 EST 1997
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Larry Chin {Larry_Chin@ca.cch.com}	CCH Canadian Ltd.
Phone: 416-224-2224 ext. 6349		90 Sheppard Ave E
Fax:   416-224-1414			North York, Ontario, M2N 3A1
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR (The Times of London)

Dear Sir,

I am firmly opposed to the spread of microchips either to the home or
to the office.  We have more than enough of them foisted upon us in
public places.  They are a disgusting Americanism, and can only result
in the farmers being forced to grow smaller potatoes, which in turn
will cause massive unemployment in the already severely depressed
agricultural industry.

Yours faithfully,
	Capt. Quinton D'Arcy, J. P.
	Sevenoaks

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