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>From: jchand@ix.netcom.com (JEFF CHANDLER) 
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>Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 13:25:48 -0400
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>From: wjk3@email.psu.edu (William J. Kraemer)
>Subject: VIRUS INFO 
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>________________________________________________________________________
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>WARNING !!!!!  URGENT !!!!!  WARNING !!!!!
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>  COPY AND PASS THIS WARNING ON TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW -- DO IT NOW !!!!!
>
>A new, ultra-dangerous computer virus exists, which willpermanently 
>destroy
>your HARD DRIVE.  Do NOT -- repeat -- do NOT download and do not even 
>READ
>anything if the "Subject" or "Re" lines include the word "Good" --
>specifically:
>"Good News" or "Good Times."
>
>Full details follow:
>
>    There is a computer virus that is being sent across the Internet.  
>If
>you receive an e-mail message with the subject line "Good Times," DO 
>NOT
>read the message, DELETE it immediately. Please read the information 
>below.
>
>    Some miscreant is sending e-mail 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 Federal Communication Commission 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 ONLINE 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 errifying, said the FCC, is the 
>fact
>that no program needs to be exchanged for a new computer to be affected
>
>and
>spread through the existing e-mail 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 e-mail
>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 bottom line is:   If you receive a file with the subject line
>"Good Times," delete it immediately!  Do not read it.  Rest assured 
>that
>whosever'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.
>
>        PASS THIS WARNING ON TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW!!!!!
>_____________________________________________________________________
>
>William J. Kraemer, Ph.D.
>Professor of Applied Physiology
>146 REC Building
>The Pennsylvania State University
>University Park, PA 16802
>phone 814-865-7109
>Fax 814-865-7077
>email WJK3@psu.edu
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Seth Chandler
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