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Warning! Internet Virus! (fwd)
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Date: Thu, 09 Nov 1995 12:17:45 -0500
From: Leslie Phillips <L_PHILLIPS@SCH.CI.LEXINGTON.MA.US>
To: Multiple recipients of list NDT-L <NDT-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
Subject: Warning! Internet Virus!
From: SMTP%"ajohnson@powermail.intouch.com" 9-NOV-1995 11:46:45.59
To: L_PHILLIPS
CC:
Subj: Fwd: Internet Virus
Date: 9 Nov 95 18:44 GMT
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Subject: Fwd: Internet Virus
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Subject: Fwd: Internet Virus
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here you go -- careful --
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Forwarded message:
Subj: Internet Virus
Date: 95-11-08 22:49:38 EST
From: DaleT 345
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CC: Virus
Thought fellow brothers and their Internet using spouses and children would
be interested in this message I received from my brother.
Dale
TO ALL EMAIL USERS...
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--I have.
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 Online 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 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 e-mail message with the subjectline reading simply "Good Times".
Avoiding infection is easy once the file has been received - don't read
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 received-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!
Follow-Ups:
Archive created by Jonathan Stanton (jonathan@cs.jhu.edu)
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