Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.91.960110162229.23730C-100000@badger.ac.BrockU.CA> Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 16:23:03 -0500 From: Martin Sieg <mailto:ms94dk@BADGER.AC.BROCKU.CA> Subject: Re: (Fwd) (Fwd) Re: INTERNET VIRUS WARNING -- IMPORTANT To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
It has been proven by many people that the below is NOT POSSIBLE !
On Wed, 10 Jan 1996, CTIGHE wrote:
> 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
>
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Martin Sieg
Secretary for the World University Services of Canada Student Committee at Brock University, Ontario, Canada.
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