Message-ID: <199504140340.UAA06855@franc.ucdavis.edu> Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1995 20:40:18 -0700 From: Derek Kauneckis <mailto:dlkauneckis@UCDAVIS.EDU> Subject: Virus! To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L
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>Hi all, got this from my Bro today, he works with computers for the navy.
>Anyways, thought you all should be warned too, pass it on please, Charles
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>Comments by: BENEDICT mailto:GO@53@WPNSTAC
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>COMPUTER VIRUS WARNING!! PLEASE READ MESSAGE BELOW!
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>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
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>Subject: INTERNET VIRUS
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>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.
>
>Warn your friends and local system users of this newest threat to the
>InterNet! It could save them a lot of time and money.
>--
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>Charles G. Go "Computers are your friends,
>Human Development Ph.D. Program they have ups and downs, snits,
>Dept. of Applied Behavioral Sciences moody days, and nice days."
>University of California -C.M. Aldwin-
>Davis, CA 95616
>
>Contacts: mailto:cggo@ucdavis.edu
> 916-752-5117
> 916-752-0426
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--------------------------------------------Derek Kauneckis International Agricultural Development Program University of California Davis, CA 95617 USA
Phone: (916) 757-2237 Fax: (916) 752-5660 E-mail: mailto:dlkauneckis@ucdavis.