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Subject: Fwd: Read carfully guys it could save your computer!!! Sharo
Author: USAPRAY@aol.com at INTERNET
Date: 2/8/96 3:57 PM
Thought you all might want to see this.
SUBJECT: VIRUSES--IMPORTANT PLEASE READ IMMEDIATELY
There is a computer virus that is being sent across the
Internet>.
If you receive an e-mail message with the subject line "Good Times", DO NOT
read the message, DELETE it immediately. Please read the messages below.
Some miscreant is sending e-mail under the title "Good Times" nation wide, if
you get anything like this, DON'T DOWN LOAD 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.
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WARNING!!!!!!! INTERNET VIRUS
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 ON LINE that is unparalleled 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 ofseveral things can happen.
If the computer contains a hard drive, thatwill 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 lways travels
to new computers the same way in a text email message with the subject
line reading "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
receive-mail file or a sent-mail file, if it can find one. It will then
proceed to 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.
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Take care
Simon