[401] in bugtraq
Re: Got this - not sure of authenticity. Better safe etc...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert M. Haas)
Tue Dec 6 21:36:38 1994
To: Doug Hughes <Doug.Hughes@eng.auburn.edu>
Cc: au-unix-managers@eng.auburn.edu, bugtraq@fc.net, happenings@eng.auburn.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 05 Dec 1994 13:30:57 CST."
<199412051930.NAA11492@netman.eng.auburn.edu>
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 1994 16:27:38 -0800
From: "Robert M. Haas" <rhaas@cygnus.arc.nasa.gov>
> PC Users:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Subject: virus
>
> There is a virus on America Online being sent by E-Mail. If you get anything
> called "Good Times", DON'T read it or download it. It is a virus that will
> erase your hard drive. Forward this to all your friends. It may help them
> alot.
I've gotten 3 copies of this message now from totally different
sources. I don't know if reading a message on American On-Line can erase
your hard drive, but I doubt it. Downloading won't either, although
running it might. Copies of this message (and several variants)
are circulating all over the country, through many different channels;
several copies came to me directly via Internet; obviously an Internet
email message can't erase your hard drive.
Does anyone have any evidence that there is any substance behind this
message? It's certainly wasting a lot of time & bandwidth in many places.
...Robert
