FW: E-mailvirus!

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From: mattias@roxx.se (MIME) at internet
Date: 10/15/96 9:09AM
To: Sami Sinerva
Subject: E-mailvirus!
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Received this from a friend...

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>>We received this important message today - I expect many people will
>>have received a similar warning, so apologies for cross-posting etc.
>>
>>Dan Dedman
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>>Date: 96-10-10 18:22:40 EDT
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>>PLEASE READ THIS CAREFULLY !
>>
>>Rec. from our office in Ghana:
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>>Hello, everyone!  This message is extremely important.  It is about a
>>VERY highly intelligent virus that is being spread nationwide called
>>"Good Times".  Once you have read this message, please forward to
>>anyone you care about.
>>Thanks.
>>
>>Pete
>>SUBJECT: [Very Important  !!! ]
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>>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.  Please read
>>the messages below.
>>
>>Some miscreant is sending  email under the title "Good Times"
>>nationwide, if you get anything like this, DON'T DOWN LOAD 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.
>>
>>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.
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>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' 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?
>>
>>HAVE A SAFE SURFING / ANGEL BOUZAS / PA GHANA LTD /
>>9.10.1996
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