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>Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 15:48:57 -0600
>From: [log in to unmask] (The Bricklayer)
>Subject: Fwd: Fw: Virus alert!!! (fwd)
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>>Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 14:11:15 MDT
>>From: Celia Freitas <[log in to unmask]>
>>Subject: Fwd: Fw: Virus alert!!! (fwd)
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>>>From [log in to unmask] Fri May  9 07:57:51 1997
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>>>Subject: Fwd: Fw: Virus alert!!! (fwd)
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>>>Date: Fri, 09 May 1997 07:56:15 PDT
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>>>Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 10:58:44 -0600 (MDT)
>>>From: Jordi Hemsing <[log in to unmask]>
>>>To: Bruce Kirke <[log in to unmask]>,
>>>        Dave Seymour <[log in to unmask]>,
>>>        Priya Sinha <[log in to unmask]>,
>>>        Wendell Ellis <[log in to unmask]>
>>>Subject: Fw: Virus alert!!! (fwd)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> *Jo-N juz received this message!!!*
>>>>
>>>> PLEASE POST!!!   THIS VIRUS MEANS BUSINESS !!!!!!!!!!
>>>>
>>>> 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 MESSAGE 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 it. Please be
>>>careful
>>>> and 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 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
>>>> 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 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?
>>>>
>>>>  ********IMPORTANT*******
>>>> PLEASE SEND TO PEOPLE YOU CARE ABOUT OR JUST PEOPLE ONLINE
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>Date: Mon, 12 May 1997 13:06:33 -0700 (PDT)
>>From: Celia Freitas <[log in to unmask]>
>>Subject: Fwd: Fw: Virus alert!!! (fwd)
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