Subject: SPREAD THE WORD!!!!!! (fwd)

From: Heidi Bullen <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 00:28:56 -0400 (AST)

This was sent to me by a friend, It is about a bug.

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Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 10:54:25 -0330 (NST)
From: Valerie Woodworth <[email-masked]>
To: Dwayne Simmons <[email-masked]>,
    Heidi Bullen <[email-masked]>,
    Timothy Parmiter <[email-masked]>,
    Stephanie Hancock <[email-masked]>,
    Charles <[email-masked]>, Amy Thompson <[email-masked]>,
    Brian Kirk Head <[email-masked]>,
    Derek Adams <[email-masked]>
Cc: Kevin Machida <[email-masked]>,
    Steve Ralph <[email-masked]>,
    Jennifer Young <[email-masked]>,
    Kurt Sampson <[email-masked]>
Subject: SPREAD THE WORD!!!!!! (fwd)

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Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 22:16:31 -0400 (AST)
From: Carl Ings <[email-masked]>
To: Valerie Woodworth <[email-masked]>
Subject: SPREAD THE WORD!!!!!! (fwd)

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Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 14:21:49 -0400 (AST)
From: Ashley James Buckle <[email-masked]>
To: Carl Ings <[email-masked]>
Subject: SPREAD THE WORD!!!!!! (fwd)

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Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 13:02:37 -0400 (AST)
From: paul bennett <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Subject: SPREAD THE WORD!!!!!!

Hi. It's me again. Frank or Boin may have already sent you this but just in
case they never, this is valuable info.

Paul J Benoit

>>>IMPORTANT MESSAGE!
>>>
>>>Subject: Virus Alert
>>>
>>>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
>>ending 
>>>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.
>>>
>>>             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. 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. 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'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. Could you pass this along to your global mailing list as well? 
>>>
>>> George H. Bowers
>>> Vice President for Information Systems University of Maryland Medical
>>System   
>>>410-328-2579  (fax)410-328-0572  
>>> [email-masked]  
>>>
>>>
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