Message-ID: <199504141522.KAA39677@audumla.students.wisc.edu> Date: Fri, 14 Apr 1995 10:22:55 -0500 From: Robert Godfrey <mailto:rgodfrey@STUDENTS.WISC.EDU> Subject: Re: Virus! To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L
According to our computer guru, the report of the Internet virus "Good Times" is a hoax. Or a joke. The warning *is* the virus, in that the warning has become self-propogating as people warn others.You can't get a virus from reading email. Yet. Just from running programs.
Cheers,
Robert
At 8:40 PM 4/13/95 -0700, Derek Kauneckis wrote: >>
>>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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>>-------------------------[Original Message]--------------------------
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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.
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