On Mon, 5 Dec 94 22:37:43 CST, rrk@rahul.net (Bob R. Kenyon) wrote: > At 22:29 12/5/94 -0600, sstones wrote: > >On Mon, 5 Dec 1994, Charles E. Vaughan wrote: > > > >> >>>There is a virus on America Online being sent by E-Mail. If you get > >> >>>anything called "Good Times", DON'T read it or download it. It is a > >> virus >>>that will erase your hard drive. Be sure to share this with > >> others. It >>>may help them a lot. > >> > >My brother warned me of one that comes with the subject line XXX1 > >Avoid it too. > > Ok. Someone wanna explain to me how a mail note is going to erase a hard drive? > > A little skepticism might be appropriate here. This sounds a little too > much like an urban folktale... Well, you do remember, perhaps, a little thing called the "Arpanet Worm" that shut down the entire Internet a few years ago? It worked thru e-mail. Not all that hard to do, really. I'm sure you've seen uuencoded files that become executables again, right?
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