| From: | Kay and Pete Hanson <kidkaos@******.NET> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | virus on the Internet |
| Date: | Fri, 21 Apr 1995 20:46:30 -0500 |
this morning from another list I'm on. So since I didn't know about it and
thought it was important I'm passing it on. Note that this announcement was
orginally from last December. I guess the guy who sent it orginally had a
friend who got the virus. So sorry if it's been run here before.
Kay
p.s. I've been told that this may be spam. I don't know if a computer can
actually get virused this way. Any 'matrix. experts care to comment??????
>*********************Forwarded Message****************************
>There is a computer virus that is being sent across the Internet. If you
>receive an e-mail message with the subject line "Good Times", DO NOT
>read the message, DELETE it immediately. Please read the messages
>below.
>
>Some miscreant is sending e-mail under the title "good times"
>nation-wide. If you get anything like this, DON'T DOWNLOAD 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--I have.
>
>Date: 12/2/94 11:59 AM
>
>Subject: INTERNET VIRUS
>
>Thought you might like to know...
>
>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. 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 ina text e-mail message with the subject line reading simply "Good
>Times".
>
>Avoiding infection is easy once the file has been received - not
>readingit. 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 received-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.
>
>
