Subject: E-mail Virus Hoaxes
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 00:57:07 +0000
To: "Hebraic Heritage Newsgroup"<heb_roots_chr@geocities.com>

Dear Mishpachah (family):

         If I knew how many times that I have received an e-mail note 
from somebody on the Internet warning me of the "Join the Crew" virus 
I would be rich. Below is the truth about e-mail virus hoaxes that 
are going around on the Internet. TOURBUS is an Internet newsletter 
sent out to over 80,000 people.  In this newsletter, it explains that 
you CANNOT get a virus from e-mail.  You can only get viruses from 
attachments to e-mail messages. Viruses can only be spread through 
EXECUTABLE program code not from regular ASCII e-mail messages.

                                Keeping you in the know ...

                                Eddie Chumney

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Date: 30 January 1998, 19:51:43 EST
From:   crispen@INTERNIC.NET
To:        TOURBUS@LISTSERV.AOL.COM
Reply-To:  TOURBUS-Request@LISTSERV.AOL.COM
Subject:      TOURBUS UPDATE -- 30 JANUARY 1998

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     1. Our friend, the "Join the Crew" virus hoax, has once again
        raised its ugly little head.  As you will remember, the hoax
        says that

             "If you receive an email titled "JOIN THE CREW" DO NOT
             open it. It will erase everything on your hard drive."

        Remember folks, regular, plain-text e-mail letters -- the
        plain old vanilla e-mail letters (like this one) that you
        receive every day -- can *NOT* contain viruses or trojan
        horses.  Period.  It does not matter WHAT the subject line of
        the letter is -- "Good Times," "Penpal Greetings," "Deeyenda,"
        "Irina," "AOL4FREE," "Join the Crew," "I AM A REALLY MEAN
        VIRUS AND I AM GOING TO EAT YOUR HARD DRIVE" -- plain text
        e-mail letters simply can not contain viruses or trojan
        horses.  If anyone tells you otherwise, they are either lying
        or are badly misinformed.

That's it.  :)

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