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Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 12:57:21 -0700 (PDT)
From: Phoang Hoang <pho2@neptune.calstatela.edu>
To: "W. T. Wong" <wwong8@neptune.calstatela.edu>
Subject: Re: Forwarded Message: viruses (fwd)
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Hi All,
Good News!
This so called 'Good Times' virus is a hoax. So don't worry about it.
It was a hoax in December of 1994, and it's still a hoax.( This is
approved by the U.S. Department of Energy's CIAC). Upon investigation,
CIAC(Computer Incident Advisory Capability) has determined that this
message originated from both a user of America Online and a student at a
university at approximately the same time, and it was ment to be a hoax.
There are variations of this hoax. The main one is that any email
message with the subject line of "xxx-1" will infect your computer.
Email virus is not possible, not the way 'Good Times' was described.
A virus is operating system-specific, Dos viruses don't affect
Micintoshes, and vice versa. 'Good Times' warnings don't mention which
types of computers are effected.
A virus can't exist by itself. It must infect an executable program. To
transmit a virus by email, someone would have to infect a file and
attach the file to the email message. To activate the virus, you would
have to download and decode the file attachment, then run the infected
program. In that situation, the email is just a carrier for and infected
file, just like a floppy disk carrying an infected file. There are some
email programs that can be set to automatically download a file
attachment, decode it, and execute the file attachemnt. Try not to use
those options.
Have a safe and good time on the Internet!
...Razmikc
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* Contrary to Popular Belief: | *
* THE ENDS DO JUSTIFY | Eddie R. Angulo *
* THE MEANS!!!!! | (Lord Death) *
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Date: Apr 19, 1996 09:07:49
From: Anita E Gilbert <agilber@calstatela.edu>
To: eangulo@calstatela.edu
Subject: Forwarded Message: viruses
In article: Forwarded Message: viruses, writes:
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Subject: VIRUSES -- IMPORTANT PLEASE READ IMMEDIATELY (fwd)
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 forward this
mail
to anyone you care about
*********************Forwarded Message****************************
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 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 in a text e-mail message with
the subject line reading simply "Good Times". 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. 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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Armanda D. Killingham
Management Compensation Group
(847)374-1000 ext. 150
E-mail: adk@mcg-chi.com (day)