Forwarded Virus Warning

[Jeffrey Shaw]

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>>>>                       V I R U S - W A R N I N G
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>>>>       There is a computer virus that is being sent across the Internet. If
>>>>     you receive an email message with the subject line "Good  Times",
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>>>>     DO NOT read the message, DELETE it immediately.  Please read the
>>>>     messages below.
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>>>>     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
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>>>>     it. Please be careful and forward this mail to anyone you care about.
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>>>>                 WARNING!!!!!!!  INTERNET VIRUS
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>>>>     The FCC released a warning last Wednesday concerning a matter of major
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>>>>     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.
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>>>>
>>>>     Could you pass this along to your global mailing list as well?
>>>>
>>>>     George H. Bowers
>>>>     Vice President for Information Systems
>>>>     University of Maryland Medical
>>>>       System 410-328-2579  (fax)410-328-0572
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>>* Dr Terry Melton                 * Email: tmelton at worf.molbiol.ox.ac.uk     *
>>* Dept of Cellular Science        * Tel: +44 1865 222 305 (Lab)              *
>>* Institute of Molecular Medicine *      +44 1865 222 404 (Office)           *
>>* Headington, Oxford              * Fax: +44 1865 222 498                    *
>>* OX3 9DU, England                *                                          *
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