Message-ID: <v02130500ad1a6e012f1a@[196.20.20.2]> Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 07:28:00 GMT+0100 From: Dr Eberhard W Lisse <mailto:el@LISSE.NA> Subject: Re: Internet Virus To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
At 4:13 PM 10/1/96, William J. Walker, Jr. wrote: >My system manager tells me that the "Good Times" virus works by
>infecting the minds of those people who receive the warning message.
>It eats up disk space when those people send the warning to everyone
>they know, and it destroys data when you start deleting files out
>of fear. In other words it is a hoax.
And it costs money!
el
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