Date: Mon, 27 Mar 1995 15:53:50 -0600 (CST) From: Enrique Sanchez Vivar <evivar@eniac.rhon.itam.mx> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: virus alert... (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.3.89.9503271520.C12319-0100000@eniac.rhon.itam.mx>
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I am forwardind this for all of you.
(hope this is not a prank)
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Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1995 00:41:47 -0700
From: TJ BREWSTER <Tj.BREWSTER@asu.edu>
To: Tj Brewster <THAYNE.BREWSTER@asu.edu>
Subject: INTERNET VIRUS WARNING
PLEASE FORWARD THIS TO ANY LISTSERV YOU ARE ON.
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Subject: VIRUS WARNING (fwd)
TC/Assist received a Fax from Kenneth Nicholson, Technical Services,
Moncton
N.B regarding an Internet Virus called "GOOD TIMES". Here is what the Fax
stated:
This message originated in Tucson.
If you receive a mail message with a subject of "GOOD TIMES", do the
following:
1 - DO NOT READ THE MESSAGE
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2 - Write down the name/Email address of the person who sent you the
message and contact TC/Assist as soon as possible.
3 - DELETE THE MESSAGE IMMEDIATELY !!!!!!!
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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
Email 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 to long.
Unfortunately, most novice computer users will not realize what is
happening until it is to 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 Email message with the subject
line reading simply "GOOD TIMES". Avoiding infection is easy once the file
has been received 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
received-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.
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