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From: IN%"mds0005@jove.acs.unt.edu" "Michael David Stewart" 24-APR-1996
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From: Paul Daniel Klages <PDKLAGES@ARTSU1.watstar.uwaterloo.ca>
Subject: Virus Alert in E-mail (fwd)
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Date: Sun, 21 Apr 1996 17:44:23 -0400
From: gary slimmon <slimmon@golden.net>
To: PDKLAGES@ARTSU2.watstar.uwaterloo.ca
Subject: Virus Alert in E-mail
Just for your info. I'll respond to your other mail in a moment...
Diane
To: "Anderson, Donna" <anders@golden.net>, "Danard, Marg"
<danard@golden.net>,
"Hacker, Jon" <4hackers@hookup.net>, Red Dragon <rgt@easynet.on.ca>,
"Slimmon, Gary" <slimmon@golden.net>
Subject: Virus Alert in E-mail
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 96 07:55:58 -0500
From: Taylor <taylorn@sentex.net>
-- [ From: Taylor * EMC.Ver #2.5.02 ] --
READ THIS FIRST - VIRUS ALERT
Killer Internet Email Virus, BEWARE!!!!!
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. 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 there 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?
Slimmon Household
Gary, Diane, Mary and David
Kitchener, Ontario
Canada