Forwarded Virus Warning
Peter Myler
Peter_Myler at msn.com
Mon Sep 30 20:57:07 BRT 1996
This virus warning has been shown to be a hoax!!!!!! I have include the URL
to the "Good Good Times Virus Hoax FAQ" which should clear up any confusion.
http://www.hr.doe.gov/goodtime.html
I am somewhat bemused that an IS person at a major University should be still
propagating this mis-information (unless someone is misusing his name etc).
Regards
Peter J. Myler
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From: leish-l at bdt.org.br on behalf of Jeffrey Shaw
Sent: Sunday, September 29, 1996 12:32 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: Forwarded Virus Warning
>>
>>>> V I R U S - W A R N I N G
>>>>
>>>> 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?
>>>>
>>>> George H. Bowers
>>>> Vice President for Information Systems
>>>> University of Maryland Medical
>>>> System 410-328-2579 (fax)410-328-0572
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>>****************************************************************************
**
>>* 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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