Klarinet Archive - Posting 000175.txt from 1996/11

From: Julianne Kirk <julesclava@-----.EDU>
Subj: [Have you seen this?: [Fwd: Virus!!! (fwd)]]]
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 19:37:58 -0500

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> All Associates
>
> Please be aware of the following Virus. It appears to be very
>
> serious,
>
> PLEASE READ VERY IMPORTANT
>
> "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.
> It has a virus that rewrites your hard drive, obliterating anything
on it.
>
> Please 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-know virusus
> such as toned','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. The act of loading the file in 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. then it trashes the hard
drive. 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's name was on the 'From" line was surely struck by the
virus. Warn your friends,and pass this along to any global lists you
> are on.
>
> Also, watch out for a program called PKZIP300.ZIP, so named to give
> the impression that this file is a new version of PKZIP software.
> DO NOT DOWNLOAD this file under any circumstances! It is a Trojan Horse
> virus, which will wipe your hard drive clean, and affect modems 14.4 and
> higher.
> EUROPEAN
> HELPDESK
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