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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 [log in to unmask]