FW: Internet Virus (fwd FYI)... (fwd)

[Kathy Chung]

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Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 19:49:20 -0400 (EDT)
From: Catherine Khordoc <ckhordoc at epas.utoronto.ca>
Subject: FW: Internet Virus (fwd FYI)... (fwd)
 
I just got this message from a friend in Comp Lit and thought I should
pass it on.
 
 
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Date: Sun, 23 Apr 1995 20:10:01 -0400 (EDT)
From: Francois Lachance <lachance at epas.utoronto.ca>
To: Catherine Khordoc <ckhordoc at blues.epas.utoronto.ca>
Subject: FW: Internet Virus (fwd FYI)... (fwd)
 
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Subject: FW: Internet Virus (fwd FYI)... (fwd)
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>>From seaboyer at epas.utoronto.ca  Sun Apr 23 01:13:11 1995
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 1995 09:46:52 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ball John Clement <ball at unixg.ubc.ca>
Subject: FW: Internet Virus (fwd FYI)... (fwd)
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Sender: seaboyer at epas.utoronto.ca
 
 
 
 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 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 you care about--I have.
 
 Date:    12/2/94 11:59 AM
 
 Subject: INTERNET VIRUS
 
 Thought you might like to know...
 
 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 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
 ina text e-mail message with the subject line reading simply "Good
Times".
 
 Avoiding infection is easy once the file has been received - not
 readingit.  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'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.
 
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Francois