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[Joanne Tompkins]

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>From:    IN%"wiley at msu.edu"   "David Wiley"
>To:      africa at msu.edu
>Subject: URGENT - EMAIL VIRUS
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>Subject: VIRUSES -- PLEASE READ IMMEDIATELY (fwd)
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>  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.
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>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 its contents.  Please forward
>this mail to others.
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>  *********************Forwarded Message****************************
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>  WARNING!!!!!!!!!: INTERNET VIRUS
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>  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.
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>  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".
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>  Avoiding infection  is easy  once the file has been  received - 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 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.
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>The bottom line 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.
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> Warn your friends and local system users of this newest threat  to the
>InterNet!
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>    *****     *****     *****     *****     *****     *****     *****
>David Wiley, Professor of Sociology and Director, African Studies Center,
>   100 CIP, Michigan State University,  East Lansing, MI  48824-1035
>Phone: (517) 353-1700  -  Fax: (517) 432-1209  -  Home (517) 332-0333
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