| From: | westec@******.COM (Neon Sihn) |
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| Subject: | new virus..NOT SR material but important |
| Date: | Thu, 1 Feb 1996 01:53:52 -0600 |
>It has been passed to me by a friend on the internet about
>a serious computer virus that is circulating. I don't want
>to alarm anyone, just to make you aware!!
>
>>
>> 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. 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 email message with the subject line
>> >>>> reading "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
>> >>>> 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 here 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.
>>
anyone noticed this elsewhere???
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