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Subject: internet Virus Alert
Author:  RobertS at DunnSystemsIncRaleigh 
Date:    8/15/96 11:39 AM
     
     
     
     U just received the following from my daughter at the University of 
     Kentucky which is said to be from Microsoft actually
     
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     >>>Please pass on this information to your colleagues. >>> 
     >>>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.
     >>>
     >>>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. 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 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. 
     >>>
     >>>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 
     >>>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' ame 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? >>> 
     >>>
     >>>Subject:  New and Dangerous Virus For your information ... >>> 
     >>>DO NOT DOWNLOAD ANY FILE NAMED PKZIP300 REGARDLESS OF THE 
     >>>EXTENSION
     >>>
     >>>We work closely with the military and received this message from 
     >>>a very reliable source in DC this morning.
     >>>
     >>>A NEW Trojan Horse Virus has emerged on the internet with the 
     >>>name PKZIP300.ZIP, so named as to give the impression that this 
     >>>file is a new version of the PKZIP software used to "ZIP" 
     >>>(compress) files.
     >>>
     >>>DO NOT DOWNLOAD this file under any circumstances!!! If you 
     >>>install or expand this file, the virus WILL wipe your hard disk 
     >>>clean and affect modems at 14.4 and higher. This is an extremely 
     >>>destructive virus and there is NOT yet a way of cleaning up this 
     >>>one.
     >>>
     >>>REPEAT: DO NOT DOWNLOAD ANY FILE NAMED PKZIP300 REGARDLESS OF 
     >>>THE  EXTENSION.
     >>>     
     >>>