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>We have found this message on Agora, the Swedish agent for FirstClass:
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> PLEASE READ THIS CAREFULLY!
>
>     The following notice came across my internet connect this morning and
>     will be released by DOE-HQ today,
>     although it may be too late in some cases.
>
>     "There is a new 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 sending email under the title "good times"
>     nation-wide.  If you get anything like this, DON'T DOWNLOAD 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 unparalled 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 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, 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 test 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 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.
>
>     Warn your friends and local system users of this newest threat to the
>     InterNet!  It could save them a lot of time and money."
>
>     Please pass this on...especially to anyone you know that uses "America
>     Online" regularly.
>
WATCH OUT!!!!!
Erik Lindstrom SWEDEN
Email: i2lier@it*.ch*.se*
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