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Re: Fwd: internet virus

To: Roland J Taras <rbtaras@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Fwd: internet virus
From: Stephen Peter Mirams <mirams@bf.rmit.edu.au>
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 13:38:40 +1000 (EST)

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Attention all people on the MG list.

This message regarding the Good Times Virus and the PKZIP300.ZIP is a hoax.

There are no such virus's being spread on the internet. My dad received 
this warning through his email approx. 2 weeks ago and since then, it has 
been confirmed to be complete b.s.

Just thought I'd let you know

Cheers

Steve
69 Midget

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On Tue, 22 Oct 1996, Roland J Taras wrote:

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> FYI
> 
> >>PLEASE READ VERY IMPORTANT
> >>
> >>I received the following warning from a friend today about a new 
> virus which
> >>is being propagated through e-mail. "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.  
> It has a
> >>virus that rewrites your hard drive, obliterating anything on it. 
> Please
> >>forward this mail to anyone you care about."
> >>
> >>/// 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 ON LINE that is 
> unparalleled
> >>in its destructive capability.  Other more well-know virusus such as 
> toned',
> >>'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. 
> The act
> >>of loading the file in 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 receive-mail file or a sent-mail file, if it can find one_. then 
> it
> >>trashes the hard drive.
> >>
> >>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. Warn your 
> friends,
> >>and
> >>pass this along to any global lists you are on. Also, watch out for a
> >>program
> >>called PKZIP300.ZIP, so named to give the impression that this file 
> is a new
> >>version of PKZIP software.  DO NOT DOWNLOAD this file under any
> >>circumstances!  It is a Trojan Horse virus, which will wipe your hard 
> drive
> >>clean, and affect modems 14.4 and higher. ///
> 
> 
> 

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