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>Date: Wed, 7 Aug 96 15:16:59 EST
>From: Angela murray <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask],
>    [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Warning of computer virus
>
>  Hello
>        There just some virus news you might find important,
>                                                        Cheers Angela.
>
>        <1> Subject:  Please pass on this information to your colleagues.
>
>        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 messages
>  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
>  on 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 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
>  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
>  happeninguntil 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'
>  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?
>
>        <2> Subject:  New and Dangerous Virus For your information ...
>
>  DO NOT DOWNLOAD ANY FILE NAMED PKZIP300 REGARDLESS OF THE EXTENSION
>
>  We work closely with the military and received this message from a
>  very reliable source in DC this morning.
>
>  A NEW Trojan Horse Virus has emerged on the internet with the name
>  PKZIP300.ZIP, so named as to give the impression that this file is a new
>  version of the PKZIP software used to "ZIP" (compress) files.
>
>  DO NOT DOWNLOAD this file under any circumstances!!! If you install or
>  expand this file, the virus WILL wipe your hard disk clean and affect
>  modems at 14.4 and higher. This is an extremely destructive virus and there
>  is NOT yet a way of cleaning up this one.
>
>  REPEAT: DO NOT DOWNLOAD ANY FILE NAMED PKZIP300 REGARDLESS OF
>  THE  EXTENSION.
>
>        Have a nice day.
>
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>Angela Murray       Email: [log in to unmask]
>                    Tel:   077-538-508
>                    Fax:   077-538-650
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