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>>>
>>>SUBJECT: VIRUSES--IMPORTANT PLEASE READ IMMEDIATELY
>>>
>>> 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 DOWN LOAD THE FILE! It
>>>has a virus that rewrites your hard drive, obliterating
>>>anything on it. Please be careful and foreward this mail to
>>>anyone you care about.
>>>
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>>>
>>>WARNING!!!!!!! INTERNET VIRUS
>>>
>>> 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", "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 constains 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 email message with the subject line
>>>reading "Good Times". Avoiding infection is easy once the
>>>file has been recieved- not reading 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
>>>recieve-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 recieve 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.
>>>Chris Thompson - (416) 581-3478
>>>Product Manager - Internetworking (Cisco/Digital Links)
>>>Floor 3 South Tower, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5G 2E1
>>>Bell Canada
>>>=7F=7F=7Ffax: (416) 585-2442
>>>E-mail: cthompso@on.bell.ca (cthompso, not cthompson!)
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>Les Peterdy
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