Internet mail virus -Forwarded
laura k paine (lkpaine@facstaff.wisc.edu)
Thu, 26 Oct 1995 15:03:57 -0500
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>From: njchatt@cc.usu.edu (N. Jerry Chatterton)
>To: "Graze List" <graze-l@cygnus.taranaki.ac.nz>
>Subject: Internet mail virus -Forwarded
>Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1995 13:52:33 -0600 (MDT)
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>To:All Graze-l subscribers
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>I just learned of this virus --thought I would pass the word along
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>>* Subject: VIRUSES -- IMPORTANT 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.
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>> Please read the messages that follows.
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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. 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 in 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!
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>>CC: Lalit Mamtani <lmamtani@camelot.bradley.edu>
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>N. Jerry Chatterton
>USDA-Agric Res Service
>Forage and Range Research
>Utah State University
>Logan, Utah 84322-6300
>Tel 801 797 2249
>Fax 801 797 3075
>Email njchatt@cc.usu.edu
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