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!!!??? 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_ ________________________ 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 > [log in to unmask] >