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Subject: FWD: Internet Virus Alert
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From: "Peter LaPine dtn:381-6007 ZK34/4T23 16-Aug-1996 0838 -0400" <plapine@domain.elided>
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Date: Fri, 16 Aug 96 08:38:49 EDT
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.
>>>
>>>