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>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>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],
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>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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>Davies Laboratory
>CSIRO, Division of Tropical Crops and Pastures
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> Townsville, Queensland, 4814
> Australia
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