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Message no. 1
From: BLANKE_B@************.wcoil.com
Subject: warning virus
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 15:50:35 -0500
just a warning don't open any messages with the subject "good time"
erase it immediatly it's a virus that seeps into your computer
destroying all files.
Message no. 2
From: "A. Blair Blackwell" <ab130f92@*******.adelphi.edu>
Subject: Re: warning virus
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 16:08:50 -0500 (EST)
At 15:50 4/3/96 -0500, you wrote:
>just a warning don't open any messages with the subject "good time"
>erase it immediatly it's a virus that seeps into your computer
>destroying all files.
>

I thought the "Good Times" virus is an urban myth, like humans using 10% of
their brain and Harlequin being God.
Message no. 3
From: Robyn King-Nitschke <rking@********.COM>
Subject: Re: warning virus
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 13:16:26 -0800
>
> I thought the "Good Times" virus is an urban myth, like humans using 10% of
> their brain and Harlequin being God.
>

Harlequin isn't God?

-s'Rat
Message no. 4
From: Sakura <jeffj@**.COM>
Subject: Re: warning virus
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 15:09:23 -0600 (CST)
On Wed, 3 Apr 1996 BLANKE_B@************.wcoil.com wrote:

> Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 15:50:35 -0500
> From: BLANKE_B@************.wcoil.com
> To: shadowrn@********.itribe.net
> Subject: warning virus
>
> just a warning don't open any messages with the subject "good time"
> erase it immediatly it's a virus that seeps into your computer
> destroying all files.

*SIGH* Not again...

OK, all together now,

The 'Good Times' Virus is a HOAX!

The -real- virus is all the mail that gets sent out by well-meaning
people warning about this spurious 'e-mail virus'. Sorry, but you've
been taken in...

Jeff Johnston Freedom of Speech Support the Blue
http://www.io.com/~jeffj R.I.P. Ribbon Anti-Censorship
jeffj@**.com 1781 - 1996 Campaign!
Message no. 5
From: Benjamin <benjamin@*****.com>
Subject: Re: warning virus
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 1996 13:26:26 PST
>just a warning don't open any messages with the subject "good time"
>erase it immediatly it's a virus that seeps into your computer
>destroying all files.
Not this shit AGAIN!

Can't people even keep what it supposedly does straight?

--
Shiftboy (aka Benjamin Kercheval)
benjamin@*****.com (NOT whatever happenes to be in the From: line today)

Probably the world's only 14-year-old Weretiger PhysAd

no website

"OH NO! THE SUN WENT NOVA!"
"I just hate it when that happens."
Message no. 6
From: "Mr. Me" <jlr6@****.ucc.nau.edu>
Subject: Re: warning virus
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 1996 17:26:04 -0700 (MST)
On Wed, 3 Apr 1996 BLANKE_B@************.wcoil.com wrote:

> just a warning don't open any messages with the subject "good time"
> erase it immediatly it's a virus that seeps into your computer
> destroying all files.
>
shut up...:P

and please no one respond to this or why it dosn't work...I don't need to
see the thread again...
______________________________________________________________________
We want it all. We want it now. And we want it in cash.
--Syndicate barabbi, The Book of Madness

jlr6@****.ucc.nau.edu
Mr.Me High Arch Priest of Tod<gorf gorf gorf> God of Small Frogs
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Message no. 7
From: dherr@********.net (David Herr)
Subject: Re: warning virus
Date: Wed, 03 Apr 96 19:42:26 EST
On Wed, 3 Apr 1996 15:09:23 -0600 (CST) you wrote:

>
>The -real- virus is all the mail that gets sent out by well-meaning
>people warning about this spurious 'e-mail virus'. Sorry, but you've
>been taken in...
>

Not only people, apperantly somebody at mcafee was taken in too, Or
thought that it would be a good marketing Idea to say that thier virus
scanner protected agains "e-mail viruses." I however know that a
e-mail virus is impossible and therefore am sure that it just scann
you incoming e-mail for attachments that contain virii, wouldn't want
to get suide for false advertising now would we?
Message no. 8
From: "Gurth" <gurth@******.nl>
Subject: Re: warning virus
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 12:29:30 +0100
BLANKE_B@************.wcoil.c said on 3 Apr 96...

> just a warning don't open any messages with the subject "good time"
> erase it immediatly it's a virus that seeps into your computer
> destroying all files.

J.D., PLEASE put a warning this into the FAQ, will you?

*sigh*

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Message no. 9
From: "A Halliwell" <u5a77@**.keele.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: warning virus
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 12:39:30 +0100 (BST)
|
|just a warning don't open any messages with the subject "good time"
|erase it immediatly it's a virus that seeps into your computer
|destroying all files.

Har, har har.
Ohhhh har har har har.....
Yes, now, whoever you are, GET STUFFED!
We've already had the Good Times myth this year, and it's not April Fools
day any more y'know.
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| |What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in |
|u5a77@**.keele.ac.uk |the ground beneath a giant boulder, which you can't |
| |move, with no hope of rescue. |
|Andrew Halliwell |Consider how lucky you are that life has been good |
|Principal subjects in:-|to you so far... |
|Comp Sci & Visual Arts | -The BOOK, Hitch-hiker's guide to the galaxy. |
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Message no. 10
From: Marizhavashti Kali <xenya@********.com>
Subject: Re: warning virus
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 04:21:23 -0800 (PST)
On Wed, 3 Apr 1996, A. Blair Blackwell wrote:

> I thought the "Good Times" virus is an urban myth, like humans using 10% of
> their brain and Harlequin being God.

And ancient elves who rule the world.

Deird'Re M. Brooks | xenya@********.com | Marizhavashti Kali
"Whose religion is this?" "It's not a religion, it's a cult."
"Whose cult
is this?" "It's Hubbard's cult, baby." "Who's Hubbard?"
"Hubbard's dead,
baby. Hubbard's dead." -Meme-
Message no. 11
From: "A Halliwell" <u5a77@**.keele.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: warning virus
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 13:29:08 +0100 (BST)
|
|On Wed, 3 Apr 1996, A. Blair Blackwell wrote:
|
|> I thought the "Good Times" virus is an urban myth, like humans using 10%
of
|> their brain and Harlequin being God.
|
|And ancient elves who rule the world.

Not yet, but they want to.....

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| |What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in |
|u5a77@**.keele.ac.uk |the ground beneath a giant boulder, which you can't |
| |move, with no hope of rescue. |
|Andrew Halliwell |Consider how lucky you are that life has been good |
|Principal subjects in:-|to you so far... |
|Comp Sci & Visual Arts | -The BOOK, Hitch-hiker's guide to the galaxy. |
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Message no. 12
From: mbroadwa@*******.glenayre.com (Mike Broadwater)
Subject: Re: warning virus
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 07:12:00 -0600
>>The -real- virus is all the mail that gets sent out by well-meaning
>>people warning about this spurious 'e-mail virus'. Sorry, but you've
>>been taken in...
>>
>
>Not only people, apperantly somebody at mcafee was taken in too, Or
>thought that it would be a good marketing Idea to say that thier virus
>scanner protected agains "e-mail viruses." I however know that a
>e-mail virus is impossible and therefore am sure that it just scann
>you incoming e-mail for attachments that contain virii, wouldn't want
>to get suide for false advertising now would we?
>
I believe what Mcafee was referin to was the latest and greatest virus
iteration, the Microsoft Macro Virus (thank you, Bill Gates) That can be
sent over e-mail, and, with microsoft office, will open itself automatically
when you check your mail on your local pc, as many office workers do. The
only one out that I've seen is rather benevolent, but still annoying. The
potential for a serious trouble making virus is enormous. BTW: Mcafee does
work against this virus. So, anyone out there who uses microsoft office,
watch the macros that you run.

Mike Broadwater
http://www.olemiss.edu/~neon
"You only need to things in this world. WD40 to make things go, and duct
tape to make them stop."
Message no. 13
From: "Randy \"Wistler\" Szabadics" <wistler@**.net>
Subject: Re: warning virus
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 09:36:35 -0500 (EST)
>On Wed, 3 Apr 1996 15:09:23 -0600 (CST) you wrote:
>
>The -real- virus is all the mail that gets sent out by well-meaning
>people warning about this spurious 'e-mail virus'. Sorry, but you've
>been taken in...
>
Please, I'm getting tired of all the e-mail on this subject. Can we please
get back to the reason we all joined this list. Shadowrun.
Thank you for your time.
Randy "Wistler" Szabadics
wistler@**.net
"Give UP!"
Message no. 14
From: "Mr. Me" <jlr6@****.ucc.nau.edu>
Subject: Re: warning virus
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 1996 09:33:25 -0700 (MST)
On Thu, 4 Apr 1996, Marizhavashti Kali wrote:

> On Wed, 3 Apr 1996, A. Blair Blackwell wrote:
>
> > I thought the "Good Times" virus is an urban myth, like humans using
10% of
> > their brain and Harlequin being God.
>
> And ancient elves who rule the world.
>
Its not the elves...ITS THE DWARVES!!! THEYRE IN IT WITH THE
DISCORDIONS!!! AND THE GAY MARTIANS!! DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT IM SAYING
STUART!?!?! I like you Stuart...youre not the others here in this
Illuminati cell...
______________________________________________________________________
We want it all. We want it now. And we want it in cash.
--Syndicate barabbi, The Book of Madness

jlr6@****.ucc.nau.edu
Mr.Me High Arch Priest of Tod<gorf gorf gorf> God of Small Frogs
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Message no. 15
From: Sgt Pepper <GRBENNET@*****.CIS.ECU.EDU>
Subject: Re: warning virus
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 96 11:34:10 EST
On Thu, 4 Apr 1996 12:29:30 +0100 Gurth said:
>BLANKE_B@************.wcoil.c said on 3 Apr 96...
>
>> just a warning don't open any messages with the subject "good time"
>> erase it immediatly it's a virus that seeps into your computer
>> destroying all files.
>
>J.D., PLEASE put a warning this into the FAQ, will you?
>
>*sigh*

Good idea, but the same people who get fooled by this are probaly the
same people who don't read FAQ's. 8-/

Sgt Pepper


Come to Elfman's World, http://www.ecu.edu/~grbennet/elfman.html

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Message no. 16
From: Kenneth Horner <kwhorner@*******.edu>
Subject: Re: warning virus
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 12:53:33 -0800 (PST)
On Wed, 3 Apr 1996, Robyn King-Nitschke wrote:

>
> >
> > I thought the "Good Times" virus is an urban myth, like humans using
10% of
> > their brain and Harlequin being God.
> >
>
> Harlequin isn't God?
God would never loose his ear to _Elron_ of all elves in a sword fight.
>
> -s'Rat
>
>
Nutcracker
Message no. 17
From: Robyn King-Nitschke <rking@********.COM>
Subject: Re: warning virus
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 13:05:30 -0800
> >
> > Harlequin isn't God?

> God would never loose his ear to _Elron_ of all elves in a sword fight.
> >

Yeah, you're right. He'd at least lose his nose in a joust or
something.

Mea culpa.

--s'Rat
Message no. 18
From: "Gurth" <gurth@******.nl>
Subject: Re: warning virus
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 10:13:24 +0100
Sgt Pepper said on 4 Apr 96...

[Good Times "virus"]
> >J.D., PLEASE put a warning this into the FAQ, will you?
> >
> >*sigh*
>
> Good idea, but the same people who get fooled by this are probaly the
> same people who don't read FAQ's. 8-/

But at least then we can tell them to Read The Damn FAQ, can't we? :) Plus
it will do two more things: hopefully prevent the people who DO read the
FAQ from posting about this so-called virus, and also make clear to the
rest of us who *hasn't* read the FAQ...

--
Gurth@******.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~gurth/index.html
You need us to run your life.
-> NERPS Project Leader & Unofficial Shadowrun Guru <-
-> The Character Mortuary: http://huizen.dds.nl/~mortuary/mortuary.html <-

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Message no. 19
From: "A Halliwell" <u5a77@**.keele.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: warning virus
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 16:06:41 +0100 (BST)
|
|On Wed, 3 Apr 1996, Robyn King-Nitschke wrote:
|
|>
|> >
|> > I thought the "Good Times" virus is an urban myth, like humans using
10% of
|> > their brain and Harlequin being God.
|> >
|>
|> Harlequin isn't God?
|God would never loose his ear to _Elron_ of all elves in a sword fight.

Ehran the scribe is L.Ron Hubbard?
Well, now I know why scientology is such a con......
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______________________________________________________________________________
| |What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in |
|u5a77@**.keele.ac.uk |the ground beneath a giant boulder, which you can't |
| |move, with no hope of rescue. |
|Andrew Halliwell |Consider how lucky you are that life has been good |
|Principal subjects in:-|to you so far... |
|Comp Sci & Visual Arts | -The BOOK, Hitch-hiker's guide to the galaxy. |
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|X+/++ R+ tv+ b+ D G e>PhD h/h+ !r! !y-|I can still say FUCK! Americans can't|
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