>>>
>>>>>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 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 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 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 simply "Good Times".
>>>>>
>>>>>Avoiding infection is easy once the file has been received - 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
>>>>>e-mail
>>>>>address is contained in a received-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 here 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.
>>>>>
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