Greg Roskies
The Port Lewis Workshop
Cloud Stirrups
>
>Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 10:25:27 -0500
>From: Rich Remsberg <rremsber>
>To: b_faculty, staff
>Subject: Internet Virus Alert (FWD)
>
>>>************************************************************
>>> 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 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 there 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>Could you pass this along to your global mailing list as well?
>>>
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