This is most likely a hoax. It seams to make the rounds every six
months or so. Regular users of the internet (as myself) have seen it,
and the disclaimers, on a repeated basis over the past three years or so.
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From: TechNet-request[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, May 10, 1996 8:28 AM
To: elynx; ChristopherRhodes; P2; GROUNDWATER; Liebl; TechNet
Cc: zangwill; siegel; Glick
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
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
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