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Bogus Virus Warning

This is a bogus virus warning that has been circulating for more than two   
years.  THERE IS NO GOOD TIMES VIRUS.  The only thing 'viral' about it is   
that the warning spreads by well-meaning forwards such as this.

Please DO NOT forward this warning on to anyone else. Millions of   
worthless messages have be sent because of this.

Bob Brewer
rebrewer@domain.elided


From: randrews@domain.elided (Robert Paul Andrews)
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 13:09:15 -0600 (CDT)
Subject: FW: Internet Virus (fwd)

BEWARE!!!
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From: Steven Longo
To: -TD Canada All Employees
Subject: Internet Virus
Date: Thursday, July 25, 1996 6:24PM
       

There is a 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"
>nationwide, if you get anything like this, DON'T DOWN LOAD 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.
>
>             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 ON LINE that
> is
>unparalleled in its destructive capability. 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, 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.  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 "Good Times". Avoiding infection is easy
>once the file has been received simply 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 receive-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! It could save them a lot of time and money.
>     Could you pass this along to your global mailing list as well?
>
>  George H. Bowers
>  Vice President for Information Systems University of Maryland Medical
>  System 410-328-2579  (fax)410-328-0572
>gbowers@domain.elided"



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