INTERNET VIRUS ALERT
This notice was sent from Allied Signal:
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.
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. Other more
well-known viruses such as "Stoned," "Airwolf" and the
"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 "Good Times." Avoiding infection is easy
once the file has been received -- 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 e-mail 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 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. It could save them a lot of time and money.
Please heed this warning.
Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's head.
Chinese Proverb
Yours truly,
Lewis E. Hagan
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Name: Shirley Castles
E-mail: Shirley Castles<[log in to unmask]>
Date: 03/02/96
Time: 09:14:27
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