Robert, I will second your information same info was released to us at my
dayjob after the 'Join The Crew' paranoia shuffled thru the office. 
Captain Tom

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> From: Robert Barkley <scuba@mi*.ne*>
> To: Peter Mesley <petemes@ic*.ih*.co*.nz*>; TechDiver Posts
<techdiver@aquanaut.com>
> Subject: Re: [Fwd: virus warning]
> Date: Monday, February 09, 1998 9:03 PM
> 
> At the risk of sounding as though I have fired up my Bic Lighter, and 
> begun a flaming war ---
> 
> PLEASE!
> 
> Research the posts you recieve from E-Mail!
> 
> There is NO such thing as the Good Times Virus, nor many other virii for 
> that matter.
> 
> I would like to take the time to point out that there are MANY virii out 
> there that simply do not exist.
> This simply means that some folks that are quite creative in their  
> writing skills, and maybe even a bit intelligent on virus composition.  
> These people have made the best type of virus... the paranoia virus.
> In short... if you receive warnings about these virus alerts (as posted 
> above), you should understand that they are not real.
> 
> The following messages and warnings have been Identified by as hoaxes:
> 
>      Deeyenda
>      PKZ300 Warning
>      PKZIP Trojan Horse
>      Irina Virus
>      Good Times Virus
>      Ghost.EXE Warning
>      PenPal Greetings
>      Make Money Fast
>      Naughty Robot
>      Join the Crew
>      Death Ray
>      A.I.D.S
>      Internet Cleanup Day
>      AOL V4.0 Cookie
>      AOL4FREE Macintosh
>      AOL4FREE Virus
>      AOL4FREE.COM Trojan Horse
> 
> ----
> 
> The following is a humorous approach to the "Good Times" virus:
> 
> Good Times Spoof 
> 
> The following spoof of the good times hoax is too well done not to 
> include here. The author of this spoof is unknown, but we will gladly 
> give him credit if he will only contact us.  
> READ THIS:
> 
> Goodtimes will re-write your hard drive. Not only that, but it will 
> scramble any disks that are even close to your computer. It will 
> recalibrate your refrigerator's coolness setting so all your ice cream 
> goes melty. It will demagnetize the strips on all your credit cards, 
> screw up the tracking on your television and use subspace field harmonics

> to scratch any CD's you try to play.
> 
> It will give your ex-girlfriend your new phone number. It will mix 
> Kool-aid into your fishtank. It will drink all your beer and leave its 
> socks out on the coffee table when there's company coming over. It will 
> put a dead kitten in the back pocket of your good suit      pants and 
> hide your car keys when you are late for work.
> 
> Goodtimes will make you fall in love with a penguin. It will give you 
> nightmares about circus midgets. It will pour sugar in your gas tank and 
> shave off both your eyebrows while dating your girlfriend behind your 
> back and billing the dinner and hotel room to your Discover card.
> 
> It will seduce your grandmother. It does not matter if she is dead, such 
> is the power of Goodtimes, it reaches out beyond the grave to sully those

> things we hold most dear. 
> It moves your car randomly around parking lots so you can't find it. It 
> will kick your dog. It will leave libidinous messages on your boss's 
> voice mail in your voice! It is insidious and subtle. It is dangerous and

> terrifying to behold. It is also a rather interesting shade of mauve.
> 
> Goodtimes will give you Dutch Elm disease. It will leave the toilet seat 
> up. It will make a batch of Methanphedime in your bathtub and then leave 
> bacon cooking on the stove while it goes out to chase gradeschoolers with

> your new snowblower.
> 
> Listen to me. Goodtimes does not exist.
> 
> It cannot do anything to you. But I can. I am sending this message to 
> everyone in the world. Tell your friends, tell your family. If anyone 
> else sends me another E-mail about this fake      Goodtimes Virus, I will

> turn hating them into a religion. I will do things to them that would 
> make a horsehead in your bed look like Easter Sunday brunch.
> 
> So there, take that Good Times. 
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