Dear Museum-L Colleague,
I have just received a message of warning against
an internet e-mail virus infection, which ought to be taken of
high seriousness.
It is worth to pass this message to friends, too.
Your Colleague in Machida, Tokyo.
Yasui Ryo
************************************
Dear SPANIT user,
One of our users has brought to our attention a very
important piece
of information of which you should be aware....
SUBJECT: VIRUSES--IMPORTANT PLEASE READ IMMEDIATELY
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 itimmediately.
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 DOWN LOAD THE FILE! Ithas a virus that
rewrites your hard drive, obliteratinganything 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 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 binaryloop -which can severely damage the
processor if left runningthat 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- 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
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 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.
Please heed this warning. We at SPAN Information
Technology will make ever effort to be the first to
identify the virus and remove it from the server
if it happens to come our way. However, should the virus
get through to you,
DO NOT READ THE MESSAGE. DELETE IT RIGHT AWAY.
Best Regards
SPAN Information Technology Inc.
Masahiko Ono
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
|
