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Forwarded message: ["Dennis C. Bley" <70304.1161@compuserve.com>:INTERNET VIRUS ALERT: I don't know if real. Dennis]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Elisabeth M. Drake )
Mon Mar 13 14:24:55 1995
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Cc: Susan Cooper <susan.e.cooper@cpmx.saic.com>,
Subject: INTERNET VIRUS ALERT: I don't know if real. Dennis
Date: 12 Mar 95 22:27:54 EST
From: "Dennis C. Bley" <70304.1161@compuserve.com>
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Subject: INTERNET VIRUS ALERT
IMPORTANT!!
>>------------------------------
>>>If you receive a mail message with a subject of "Good Times," do the
>>following:
>>>
>>>1. DO NOT READ THE MESSAGE!!!!
>>> ******
>>>
>>>2. Write down the name/e-mail address of the person who sent you the
message
>>>and send it to MIS as soon as possible.
>>>
>>>3. DELETE THE MESSAGE IMMEDIATELY!!!!!
>>>
>>>The virus originated from America Online and is propagated through the
>>>Internet.
>>>
>>>The FCC recently released a warning 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 Online 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 the 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, it 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 for
too
>>>long. Unfortunately, most novice computer users will not realize what is
>>>happening until it is 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.
>>>
>>>
>>brm1klm@brm10.med.navy.mil
>>Keath Marx
>>
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