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			*** FYI ***
If you recieve an e-mail titled " JOIN THE CREW" do not open it.

It will erase everything on your hard disk.

This is a new virus that is not detected by McAfee or Norton.




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At 05:03 AM 8/9/97 -0400, David D.W. Downey wrote:
>
>			*** FYI ***
>If you recieve an e-mail titled " JOIN THE CREW" do not open it.
>
>It will erase everything on your hard disk.
>
>This is a new virus that is not detected by McAfee or Norton.


Yes, my children, this is a new virus.  There are certain facts, however,
of which you should be aware.

>From http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACHoaxes.html#joincrew:


----------------Begin Attached Message------------------

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.

------------End Attached Message-------------


Postscript:  To those of you who still are virgins, please read the above
thoroughly noting especially: "For a virus to spread, it must be executed.
Reading a mail message does not execute the mail message."

Go ye in safety with thy hard drive in tact. 






*************************************************************
Lynne L. Harrison, Esq.       |   "No matter how far you've
Poughkeepsie, New York        |    gone down the wrong road,
lharrison@mhv.net             |    turn back."
http://www.dueprocess.com     |     - Turkish proverb
*************************************************************

DISCLAIMER:  I am not your attorney; you are not my client.
             Accordingly, the above is *NOT* legal advice.

At 09:23 AM 8/9/97 -0400, David D.W. Downey wrote:
>Lynne is most definitely correct. In order for a viral infection to take
>place, execution of the attached file first take place. Even malicious
>MS Word and likeminded word processing macros must inevitably execute a
>binary file. This message was forwarded to me via an ISP Viral Alert
>program. I apologize for not including the fact of program execution as
>being the actual infecting point. To all those familiar and  unfamiliar
>with the way virii operate, please accept my sincere apologies.

Well, now that you've got a clue, make sure you send mail back to the
people who sent you this hoax educating them, and asking them to
follow up to the people who scared them into sending it on.
That way you can all have some Good Times...



#			Thanks;  Bill
# Bill Stewart, +1-415-442-2215 stewarts@ix.netcom.com
# You can get PGP outside the US at ftp.ox.ac.uk/pub/crypto/pgp
#   (If this is a mailing list or news, please Cc: me on replies.  Thanks.)

Just as an aside, I received the "virus" in question and it was actually
a poorly written Trojan Horse that I am not sure would work if
initiated.

PHM

Lynne is most definitely correct. In order for a viral infection to take
place, execution of the attached file first take place. Even malicious
MS Word and likeminded word processing macros must inevitably execute a
binary file. This message was forwarded to me via an ISP Viral Alert
program. I apologize for not including the fact of program execution as
being the actual infecting point. To all those familiar and  unfamiliar
with the way virii operate, please accept my sincere apologies.