Subject: Fwd: Info about New Virus on the Net (fwd)

From: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 07:53:58 -0400

In a message dated 96-07-30 22:25:05 EDT, MAC278 writes:

<< Subj:	Fwd: Info about New Virus on the Net (fwd)
 Date:	96-07-30 22:25:05 EDT
 From:	MAC278
 To:	FORGE722

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 Forwarded Message:
 Subj:	Info about New Virus on the Net (fwd)
 Date:	96-07-30 18:47:33 EDT
 From:	[email-masked] (Angela G. Rothrock)
 To:	[email-masked] (steve)

 ---------- Forwarded message ----------
 Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 12:12:23 -0500 (CDT)
 From: Amy C Scruggs <[email-masked]>
 To: [email-masked]
 Subject: Info about New Virus on the Net (fwd)

 ---------- Forwarded message ----------
 Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 11:52:13 -0500
 From: Jason Howell <[email-masked]>
 To: [email-masked]
 Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked],
     [email-masked]
 Subject: Info about New Virus on the Net
 
 >Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 09:36:59 -0500
 >X-Sender: [email-masked] (Unverified)
 >To: Jason Howell <[email-masked]>
 >From: Christi Alford <[email-masked]>
 >Subject: Info about New Virus on the Net
 >
 >>From: Christi Alford <[email-masked]>
 >>Subject: Info about New Virus on the Net
 >>
 >>Please read the information below, which I recieved.

>>---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 >-----
 >>
 >>There is a computer virus that is being sent across the Internet. If you
 >receive an email message with the subject line "Good Times", DO NOT read
the
 >message, DELETE it immediately. Please read the messages below. Some
 >miscreant is sending email under the title "Good Times" nationwide, 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 on your mailing lists.
 >>
 >>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 Online 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
 >email 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 could possibly be damaged.
 >>
 >>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
 >received simply by 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.
 >>
 >>This program is highly intelligent and will send copies of itself to
 >everyone whoses email address is contained in a receive-mail file or a
 >sent-mail file, if it can find one. It will then proceed to trash the
 >computer it is running on.
 >>

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Forwarded message:
Subj:    Fwd: Info about New Virus on the Net (fwd)
Date:    96-07-30 22:25:05 EDT
From:    MAC278
To:      FORGE722

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Forwarded message:
From:	[email-masked] (Angela G. Rothrock)
To:	[email-masked] (steve)
Date: 96-07-30 18:47:33 EDT

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 12:12:23 -0500 (CDT)
From: Amy C Scruggs <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Subject: Info about New Virus on the Net (fwd)

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 11:52:13 -0500
From: Jason Howell <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked],
    [email-masked]
Subject: Info about New Virus on the Net

>Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 09:36:59 -0500
>X-Sender: [email-masked] (Unverified)
>To: Jason Howell <[email-masked]>
>From: Christi Alford <[email-masked]>
>Subject: Info about New Virus on the Net
>
>>From: Christi Alford <[email-masked]>
>>Subject: Info about New Virus on the Net
>>
>>Please read the information below, which I recieved.
>>---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>-----
>>
>>There is a computer virus that is being sent across the Internet. If you
>receive an email message with the subject line "Good Times", DO NOT read the
>message, DELETE it immediately. Please read the messages below. Some
>miscreant is sending email under the title "Good Times" nationwide, 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 on your mailing lists.
>>
>>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 Online 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
>email 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 could possibly be damaged.
>>
>>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
>received simply by 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.
>>
>>This program is highly intelligent and will send copies of itself to
>everyone whoses email address is contained in a receive-mail file or a
>sent-mail file, if it can find one. It will then proceed to trash the
>computer it is running on.
>>
>>---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>-----
>>
>
>
>

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        *__________\_(0)_/__________*                	Jason/
            @  @  (](_o_)[)  @  @			smackover

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From: "Steven O. Smith" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 96 9:27:11 MDT

This is false. The only virus aspect of this is that the text of this
letter keeps circulating. The FCC never said anything. There is _NO_
way that reading mail can activate any kind of programs on your
computer to hurt it. I'm an electrical engineer; I earn my living from
using computers. I know whereof I speak.

Don't feel bad for being taken in; lots of people are. The text you
sent is out on the net and gets found every so often. No apologies
needed. 

It would be a responsible thing to forward my information to all the
folks you copied.

--
Steven O. Smith
[email-masked]