Subject: Fwd: [Fwd: Re: Internet Virus] (fwd)

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Date: Sat, 1 Feb 1997 20:57:23 -0800 (PST)

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Subject: Fwd: [Fwd: Re: Internet Virus] (fwd)

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>From: "Kirill.Sirotinskiy" <[email-masked]>
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>I just got this E-Mail Message.  Please pass it on to anyone you know.
>
>
>Would hate to see a bad thing happen to any of MY friends, so please
>read this important message I received from my Corporate Headquarters and
>forward it on to YOUR friends.
> 
>** High Priority **
> 
>Please read and heed the attached re: a new virus that is being transmitted
>via Internet.
> 
>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.
> 
>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 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 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
>affected and 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 "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 servers 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
>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.
> 
>PASS THIS WARNING ON TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW -- DO IT NOW !!!!! 
> 
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 SERGEY KURYOKHIN INTERNATIONAL INTERDISCIPLINARY FESTIVAL,
 JANUARY 15-25/1997, New York, USA
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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 2 Feb 1997 12:21:37 +0100 (CET)

On Sat, 1 Feb 1997 [email-masked] whined:

  >To: [email-masked], [email-masked],
					     ^^^^^^^
  >[email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked],
	     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^	   ^^^^^^^ 	       ^^^^^^^
Anyone wanna play odd-man-out?

  >To: shani taha <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]

Hmm, there's more...

  >>[email-masked], [email-masked] (Alexandre Tarelkine)

And more...
  
  >>        [email-masked], [email-masked]

Reads like a who is who in <censored>...

  >>the message, DELETE it immediately. Please read the messages below.

Well, I have my doubts about ascii spreading viruses but here's one for the
non-believers from :
                               The Net Abuse FAQ
  
  4.7) Hey, the "Good Times" virus--
  
     ...is a total, 100%, long-proven hoax. For the complete story, see:
     
      http://www.nsm.smcm.edu/News/GTHoax.html

  >>virus has been engineered by a user of AMERICA ONLINE that is
					   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 
  >>unparalleled in its destructive capability.
  
What's it called? The "account" virus? Or the "keyboard" virus?
  
  >>PASS THIS WARNING ON TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW -- DO IT NOW !!!!!

Me too?

Cheers,
Robin

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From: Rebecca Blake <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 02 Feb 1997 13:26:18 +0100

This message has been circulating on the Internet for about 5 years and is a HOAX.  It's a 
newbie trap.  Sorry.