LZ: INTERNET VIRUS ALERT (FWD)

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LZ: INTERNET VIRUS ALERT (FWD)

READ CAREFULLY AND FORWARD TO EVERYONE!!!!!!!!


The message sent to me and others read:


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 who's 
ever
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.


Ciao


Marco Leccese