From Henry Guttentag: To All:
Let us all be careful with this warning
Henry
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Subject: INTERNET VIRUS WARNING -- IMPORTANT
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Subject: INTERNET VIRUS WARNING -- IMPORTANT
PLEASE NOTE:
WARNING!!!!!!!!!: INTERNET VIRUS
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" 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--I
have.
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 subject line 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!
Paul Bogenrief
