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 >Received: from dns.who.ch (dns.who.ch [158.232.17.1]) by >merlin.rtpnc.epa.gov (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA18031; Mon, 4 Nov 1996 >04:17:47 -0500 (EST) >Received: by dns.who.ch (5.65/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) > id AA24768; Mon, 4 Nov 1996 09:48:11 -0100 >Received: from ccMail by ccm.who.ch (SMTPLINK V2.11.01) > id AA847129803; Mon, 04 Nov 96 10:32:20 CET >Message-Id: <9610048471.AA847129803-AT-ccm.who.ch> >Date: Mon, 04 Nov 1996 10:32:20 -0500 >From: <schwelad-AT-who.ch> >Subject: Re: (Fwd) !!!!! VIRUS !!!!! >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: text/plain >Content-Disposition: inline > > For your information - please circulate > > >______________________________ Forward Header >__________________________________ >Subject: (Fwd) !!!!! VIRUS !!!!! >Author: S. ABOUBAKER at whohq2 via M. attafuah >Date: 17/10/96 13:53 > > > >---------- 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) > ************************************************************ --- from list marxism-international-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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