Re: [Fwd: FW: [Fwd: Read carefully!!!!!]]

Brenda Hare (Brenda.Hare@Cedar-Rapids.Net)
Thu, 29 May 1997 18:02:51 -0500

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> Subject: FW: [Fwd: Read carefully!!!!!]
> Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 21:51:57 -0400
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> >Subject: FW: [Fwd: Read carefully!!!!!]
> >Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 17:56:41 -0500
> >
> >
> >
> >From: Antonio Pacheco <joompi@fl.net.au>
> >To: "bearslug@thefuture.net" <bearslug@thefuture.net>
> >Subject: Read carefully!!!!!
> >Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 09:18:00 -0500
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> >>
> >>Subject: Re: READ THIS A.S.A.P.
> >>
> >> Just received this note from a friend who is a regular internet user.
> >> Thought it may be of concern for all to have a read.
> >>
> >>
> >> Rosa
> >>
> >>______________________________ Forward Header
> >__________________________________
> >>Subject: Re: READ THIS A.S.A.P.
> >>Author: caw@geko.net.au at smtp
> >>Date: 25/5/97 13:32
> >>
> >>
> >>Date: 25/5/97
> >>
> >>>>Received this message this afternoon and am passing it on.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>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.
> >>>>
> >>>>Some miscreant is sending the email under the titrle "Good Times"
> >>>>nationwide, >>and perhaps internationally.
> >>>>If you get anything like this DON'T DOWNLOAD THE FILE! It has a virus that
> >>>>rewrites your hard drive, obliterating everything.
> >>>>
> >>>>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 unparalleled in its destructive capability. What makes this
> >>>>virus so terrifying is that 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 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 struch 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 forward this message on :)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> SCOTTY 2
> MONTICELLO DIE ON YOUR FEET, OR LIVE ON YOUR KNEES!
> NEW YORK

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