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I don't think Good Times will wreck your hard drive or anything like that. But it WILL cause your brooms and mops to jump out of the cupboards and dance on the tabletop. THIS IS TRUE. I have several relatives who have been afflicted with this and the only thing that could help them was rubbing Mexican yam cream all over their cables to stop the "bugs" from running up into the computer. I SWEAR THIS IS ALL TRUE. Please have a look at my next posting in just a few minutes if you don't believe me! --------- On Mon, 11 Nov 1996, David Laor wrote: > Hello, everyone! This message is extremely important. It is about a very > highly intelligent virus that is being spread nationwide called "Good > Times". Once you have read this message, please forward to anyone > you care about. > Thanks. > > SUBJECT: [Very Important !!! ] > > 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. 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 "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 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. 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 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' > 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? > > DO NOT DOWNLOAD ANY FILE NAMED PKZIP300 REGARDLESS OF THE > EXTENSION > > We work closely with the military and received this message from a > very reliable source in Washington DC this morning. > > A NEW Trojan Horse Virus has emerged on the internet with the name > PKZIP300.ZIP, so named as to give the impression that this file is a > new version of the PKZIP software used to "ZIP" (compress) files. > DO NOT DOWNLOAD this file under any circumstances!!! If you install or > expand this file, the virus WILL wipe your hard disk clean and affect > modems at 14.4 and higher. This is an extremely destructive virus and > there is NOT yet a way of cleaning up this one. > > > REPEAT: DO NOT DOWNLOAD ANY FILE NAMED PKZIP300 > REGARDLESS OF THE EXTENSION. > > >Shelley Stienstra, VP Operations, Pinnacle Group > > ------------------- David Robert Austen Masters Degree Program in Information Science Indiana University, Bloomington Indiana 47405 U.S.A. Telephone 812 335 8835 Fax 812 335 8598 --------------------