Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 12:51:02 -0600 (CST)
From: NECHVATAL Joseph <jnech-AT-imaginet.fr> (by way of jelly-AT-mail.utexas.edu (Jessica and Sterling's Mail))
Subject: V I R U S - W A R N I N G


                    V I R U S - W A R N I N G

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. 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.  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?

George H. Bowers
Vice President for Information Systems University of Maryland Medical
System 410-328-2579  (fax)410-328-0572

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Joseph Nechvatal, Paris, France, Europa
http://www.cybertheque.fr/galerie/jnech
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