Re: Fwd: virus notification
- To: i*@Rt66.com
- Subject: Re: Fwd: virus notification
- From: J* M* <c*@ttuhsc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 07:37:45 -0500
At 09:05 PM 4/22/96 MDT, you wrote:
Please, PLEASE do not pass this along.
It is a hoax. The hoax has been around for several years and occasionally
surfaces again like this. I have seen it on every mailing list I subscribe
to.
Jay Morrow
PS Robert,
Even though it is a hoax, I personally appreciate your concern in passing it
on to others.
>Greetings all:
>
>My sister forwarded this virus notification to me from her office in Texas.
> I am passing this information on to you.
>
>Robert Turley
>LaBelle, FL
>---------------------
>Forwarded message:
>From: Martha.Turley@ORYX.COM
>To: RMTURLEY@aol.com
>Date: 96-04-22 11:08:15 EDT
>
>Hi! I received this virus warning from the office network about this virus.
>
>I thought you would like to know since you have America on Line.
>
>
>Marthat
>----------( Forwarded letter 1 follows
>)----------------------------------------
>Date: Monday, 22 April 1996 8:41am CT
>From: Facilities.Services@TAO1
>Subject: virus notification
>
>>
>> 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 it immediately. Please read the messages
>> below. Some miscreant is sending e-mail 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
>>
>> *********************Forwarded Message*********************
>>
>> 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 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.
>>
>>
>
>
