Fwd: virus notification

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
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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
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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.
>
>
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