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Date:         Mon, 5 Dec 1994 20:36:47 -0800
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From:         rrk@rahul.net (Bob R. Kenyon)
Subject:      Re: Rumor of the day

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...

Bob

-- Bob Kenyon, Beautiful Downtown San Jose, CA


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