Warning, Dangerous Virus !!! (fwd)

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>From sysop Thu Apr 27 19:01:27 1995
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Subject: Warning, Dangerous Virus !!!
To: hornwood@xxxxxxxx (Susie Hornwood)
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1995 18:56:39 -0400 (EDT)
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VERY IMPORTANT.... WARNING!

> > The following notice came across my
> > internet connect this morning and will be
> > released by DOE-HQ today, although it may
> > be too late in some cases.
> >
> > "There is a new computer virus that is
> > being sent across the Internet. If you
> > receive an email message with the subject
> > line "Good Times," DO NOT read the
> > message. DELETE it immediately. Please
> > read the messages below.
> >
> > Some miscreant is sending email under the
> > title "good times" nation-wide. If you get
> > anything like this, DON'T DOWNLOAD
> > THE FILE! It has a virus that rewrites
> > your hard drive, obliterating anything on it.
> > Please be careful and forward this mail to
> > anyone you care about.
> >
> > Thought you might like to know...
> >
> > The FCC released a warning last
> > Wednesday concerning a matter of major
> > importance to any regular user of the
> > Internet. Apparently, a new computer
> > virus has been engineered by a user of
> > America Online that is unparalled in its
> > destructive capability. Other, more
> > well-known viruses such as Stoned, Airwolf,
> > and Michaelangelo pale in comparison to
> > the prospects of this newest creation by a
> > warped mentality.
> >
> > What makes this virus so terrifying, said
> > the FCC, is the fact that no program needs
> > to be exchanged for a new computer to be
> > infected. It can be spread through the
> > existing e-mail systems of the InterNet.
> > Once a computer is infected, one of several
> > things can happen. If the computer
> > contains a hard drive, that will most likely
> > be destroyed. If the program is not
> > stopped, the computer's processor will be
> > placed in an nth-complexity infinite binary
> > loop, which can severely damage the
> > processor if left running that way too long.
> > Unfortunately, most novice computer users
> > will not realize what is happening until it is
> > far too late.
> >
> > Luckily, there is one sure means of
> > detecting what is now known as the "Good
> > Times" virus. It always travels to new
> > computers the same way in a test e-mail
> > message with the subject line reading
> > simply "Good Times."
> >
> > Avoiding infection is easy once the file has
> > been received - not reading it.
> > The act of loading the file into the mail
> > server's ASCII buffer causes the "Good
> > Times" mainline program to initialize and
> > execute. The program is highly intelligent -
> > it will send copies of itself to everyone
> > whose e-mail address is contained in a
> > received-mail file or a sent-mail file, if it
> > can find one. It will then trash the
> > computer it is running on.
> >
> > The bottom line here is - if you receive a
> > file with the subject line "Good Times,"
> > delete it immediately! Do not read it! Rest
> > assured that whoever's name was on the
> > "From:" line was surely struck by the virus.
> >
> > Warn your friends and local system users
> > of this newest threat to the InterNet! It
> > could save them a lot of time and money."
> >
> > Please pass this on...especially to anyone
> > you know that uses "America Online"
> > regularly.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>


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Subject: Warning, Dangerous Virus !!! (fwd)
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