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From: 	Marc Siegel[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 	Friday, May 10, 1996 1:27 AM
To: 	[log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]
Cc: 	[log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask]
Subject: 	Virus Alert


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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Dr. Marc H. Siegel
Project Coordinator, E-LYNX (US EPA ETI Program)
Engineering Process & Information Consulting
12397 Picrus Street
San Diego, CA 92129-4113
Phone:  619-484-9855
Fax:    619-484-9856
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