que silly. this scam is at least a year old. email can't transmit a virus.

On Fri, 10 May 1996, Marc Siegel wrote:

> 
> This was forwarded to me from a from a pretty good source.  Better safe than
> sorry.
> 
>  
>   
> Immediately delete (do not open or read) any email you might receive with
> the subject heading "Good Times." 
>   
> There is a 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" nationwide, 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. 
>   
>                           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
> email 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 text email message with the subject line reading "Good
> Times".   Avoiding infection is easy once the file has 
> been received simply by 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 email 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 there 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. 
>   
> Could you pass this along to your global mailing list as well? 
>   
>   
> George H. Bowers 
> Vice President for Information Systems University of Maryland Medical System 
> 410-328-2579  (fax)410-328-0572 
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> 
> 
> 
> 
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