Message-ID: <F335F95274@ver.lld.com> Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 11:28:34 EST From: CTIGHE <mailto:CTIGHE@VER.LLD.COM> Subject: (Fwd) (Fwd) Re: INTERNET VIRUS WARNING -- IMPORTANT To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
Excuse the cross-postings....just forwarding valuable urgent info------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- From: "Noel Dickover" <VER-LLD/NDICKOVER> Organization: Lloyd Lamont Design To: #everyone Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 11:12:58 EST Subject: (Fwd) Re: INTERNET VIRUS WARNING -- IMPORTANT
I think we've had a warning on this virus before, but just in case...
> Date: Wednesday, January 03, 1996 3:03PM
>
> Subject: INTERNET VIRUS WARNING -- IMPORTANT
>
> PLEASE NOTE:
>
> WARNING!!!!!!!!!: INTERNET VIRUS
>
> 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" 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--I
> have.
>
> 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, Airfoil, 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 in a text e-mail message with the subject line reading simply
> "Good Times".
>
> Avoiding infection is easy once the file has been received - don't
> read 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 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 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!
-- Derek Miers Enix Limited, 3 The Green, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 1PL UK Tel: 44-181-332 0210 Fax: 44-181-940 7424 email: mailto:miers@enix.co.uk Check out our research site URL - http://www.enix.co.uk/Chris Tighe mailto:Ctighe@ver.lld.com mailto:Ctighe@capaccess.org