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From: Angela Taras <ataras@ondemandresource.com>
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FYI
>>PLEASE READ VERY IMPORTANT
>>
>>I received the following warning from a friend today about a new
virus which
>>is being propagated through e-mail. "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.
It has a
>>virus that rewrites your hard drive, obliterating anything on it.
Please
>>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-know virusus such as
toned',
>>'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.
The act
>>of loading the file in 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 receive-mail file or a sent-mail file, if it can find one_. then
it
>>trashes the hard drive.
>>
>>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 whoever's
name
>>was on the 'From" line was surely struck by the virus. Warn your
friends,
>>and
>>pass this along to any global lists you are on. Also, watch out for a
>>program
>>called PKZIP300.ZIP, so named to give the impression that this file
is a new
>>version of PKZIP software. DO NOT DOWNLOAD this file under any
>>circumstances! It is a Trojan Horse virus, which will wipe your hard
drive
>>clean, and affect modems 14.4 and higher. ///
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