Received this late last night and I thought you might be interested... I'm
trying to do some research into this.
/isaac
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Date: 95-04-23 23:35:19 EDT
PLEASE READ THIS CAREFULLY!
"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.
.......................................................................
fyi...
/isaac
=====================================
Date: 95-04-23 23:35:19 EDT
PLEASE READ THIS CAREFULLY!
"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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