FYI....


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Subject: Re: Internet Virus
Author:  Rick Mardis at jabil_StPete5
Date:    9/19/96 10:15 AM


    
    RICK -
    
    GOT THIS FROM HAMILTON HALLMARK - FYI.
    
    
    
    MARK
    
    
    
****************** SUBJECT: INTERNET VIRUS !!!!!! **************************
    
****   SUBJECT:  New and Dangerous 'E-mail' Virus For your information...
    
        Please pass on this information to your colleagues.
    
        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 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.
    
        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 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?
    

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