Re: LZ: INTERNET VIRUS ALERT (FWD)
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On Thu, 10 Oct 1996 13:43:40 -0400 Craig J Hawkins <cjhawkin@mtu.edu>
writes:
>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.
>
An e-mail virus is impossible. I feel sorry for people who can't figure
this out.
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