I have just checked with our local security guru. The FCC has retracted
the warning as it is apparently innocuous. Passing on the warning is
unnecessary.
Rob Pennington
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Subject: FW: Virus warning - Pass it on! PLEASE READ IT!!!!
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WARNING> long but important posting. No lbc content but you'll really
want to know about this if you haven't heard already. I got this note
from a friend at GE.
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Rik Schlierer "Keep a good thought"
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Subject: FW: Virus warning - Pass it on! PLEASE READ IT!!!!
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 95 15:41:00 edt
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From: lawyerd
To: cashwi; cbush; a93hl5j%ssavrna.gesninet; sc9101%ssavrna.gesninet;
pc0011; gtomko; Carl-Kusnick; bkeesler; paulm; sudy; fw424
Subject: Virus warning - Pass it on! PLEASE READ IT!!!!
Date: Thu, Apr 20, 1995 2:21PM
Hello Everyone!
Please read the following message and take heed!! Note that it
may be possible that title of the message may be changed by anyone, so
be wary of ANY message that may look "funky".
Thanx,
Chris~
Forwarded message:
>
>
>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 messages
>below.
>
>Some miscreant is sending e-mail under the title "good times"
>nation-wide. If you get anything like this, DON'T DOWNLOAD 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--I have.
>
>
>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.
> --
>
>-------------------------------------------------------
>Steve S. Bong E-Mail: sbong@camber.com
>Visualization and GIS Group Phone : (205)-922-0200
>Camber Corporation Direct: (205)-922-3592
>635 Discovery
>Huntsville, AL 35806 FAX : (205)-922-3599
>-------------------------------------------------------
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