!!!???

Hmmmm . . . this thing looks familiar.  Before you all panic
gie me a few minutes to get a cite on this puppy and send it out to you.
I am pretty sure it is an old hoax.

David_
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On Sat, 24 Aug 1996, Barbara Blake-Krebs wrote:

> To All-- I received this message from a writer's list I'm on at aol.  PLEASE
> READ..
>
> Date:  Sat, Aug 24, 1996 3:50 PM EDT
> From:  Wordybird
> Subj:  Fwd: Virus Alert
> To:      [log in to unmask]
> cc:     BarbKKFI
>
> WATCH OUT GUYS!!!
>
> --------------
> Forwarded Message:
>
> Date:  Sat, Aug 24, 1996 3:36 PM EDT
> From:  ALGArtist
> Subj:  Fwd: Virus Alert
>
> To:      Wordybird
> cc:      Zorrila, SuperType, Andre1054
>
> --------------
> Forwarded Message:
>
> Date:  Fri, Aug 23, 1996 11:08 AM EDT
> From:  B Corp 007
> Subj:  Virus Alert
> To:      ALGArtist
> cc:      Tigger8899, GREENBOLT
>
> IMPORTANT MESSAGE!!!
>
> Subject: FW: Extremely Destructive Virus (fwd)  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?
>
> Barbara Blake-Krebs
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>