Beware of warnings!

[BOURASSA ANDRE G]

There is no risk to get a virus by reading e-mail. There are risks in the
download of a program, because a virus is most often a program hidden in
another one. If you decide to download a program, make sure you do it from
a responsible source, wether it is from a disk or through the web.
Amicalement, Andre G. Bourassa.

On Tue, 22 Apr 1997, Shemina Keshvani wrote:

> Subject: FW: FWD>URGENT E-MAIL WARNING
>
> AOL virus alert -- real or not, good to know.
> >
> >FYI...
> >
> >
> >A few hours ago, someone opened an E-mail that had the
> subject
> >heading of "AOL4FREE.COM".  Within seconds of opening it, a
> window appeared
> >and
> >began to display all his files that were being deleted.  He
> immediately
> >shut down his computer, but it was too late.  This virus
> wiped him out.  It
> >ate the Anti-Virus Software that comes with the Windows '95
> Program along
> >with F-Prot AVS.  Neither was able to detect it.  Please be
> careful and
> >send this to as many people as possible, so maybe this new
> virus can be
> >eliminated.
> >
> >DON'T OPEN E-MAIL NOTING "AOL4FREE"
> >
> >VIRUS ALERT!!!
> >
> >Be aware that there are  letters going around that you have
> won free
> >Aol until 1998....or  AOL 4 free......  PLEASE DELETE......
> contains a virus
> >that will wipe out your harddrive after
> >you download it
> >
> > SUBJECT AREA OF EMAIL....... CONGRATULATIONS! You are a
> WINNER!
> >
> > SUBJECT AREA OF EMAIL....... AOL 4 Free - Get AOL For Free
> >
> >SENDERS................................Matthews27 or
> VPVVPPVVP
> >
> >WARN  YOUR FRIENDS
> >
>