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> According to i2lier@it*.ch*.se*...
>
> >
> >We have found this message on Agora, the Swedish agent for FirstClass:
> >
> > 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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This is absolute garbage!! *!
No replication feature can be transmitted as a text file. *
The "virus" of this is the distribution it's getting by people *
who don't know it's a joke. *
"nth-complexity infinite binary loop" What a crock!! *
*
Please don't spread this anymore. *
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Chris Elmore University of South Carolina
chris@ot*.hs*.sc*.ed* Humanities and Social Sciences Laboratory
(803)-777-7840 Columbia, S.C. 29208
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