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Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 23:18:18 -0500 (EST)
From: shmage-AT-pipeline.com (Shane Mage)
Subject: M-I: Re: (Fwd) !!!!!   "Good Times" VIRUS !!!!! -Forwarded


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>Subject: (Fwd) !!!!! VIRUS !!!!!
>Author:  S. ABOUBAKER at whohq2 via M. attafuah
>Date:    17/10/96 13:53
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>
>---------- Forwarded Message ----------
>
>From:   Henriette Jansen
>
>RE:     !!!!! VIRUS !!!!!
>
>Message received from Internet...
>Please be careful....
>
>                           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?
>
>                                        Author : George H. Bowers
>                                        Vice President for Information
>                                        Systems University of Maryland
>                                        Medical System
>                                        410-328-2579  (fax)410-328-0572
>
>
>        ************************************************************
>        Henriette Jansen        E-Mail: h.jansen-AT-lshtm.ac.uk
>
>        Residence:              Room 436, Lillian Penson Hall
>                                Talbot Square, LONDON W2 1TT, U.K.
>
>        Tel: +44 - 171 - 262 2081  (Ext. 436)
>        Fax: +44 - 171 - 724 1258  (Indicate My Name & Room Nr 436)
>        ************************************************************




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