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>
>From:jason@in*.co* (Jason Schroedl) 
>Subject:URGENT - EMAIL VIRUS (fwd)
>
>>>
>>>   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" nation-wide.

>>> If  you get anything  like this, DON'T DOWN LOAD THE FILE!  It has a virus

>>> that  rewrites your hard drive, obliterating its contents.  Please forward

>>> this mail to others.
>>>
>>>   *********************Forwarded Message**************************** 
>>>
>>>   WARNING!!!!!!!!!: INTERNET VIRUS 
>>>
>>>
>>>   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 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 
>>> text 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 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!
>>>
>>>     *****     *****     *****     *****     *****     *****     *****
>>> David Wiley, Professor of Sociology and Director, African Studies Center, 
>>>    100 CIP, Michigan State University,  East Lansing, MI  48824-1035
>>> Phone: (517) 353-1700  -  Fax: (517) 432-1209  -  Home (517) 332-0333 
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>


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