Date:         Tue, 11 Mar 1997 08:52:39 -0700
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From:         "Morrell, Edward" <Edward_Morrell@jdedwards.com>
Subject:      FW: Virus Warning

Info for your use I received today.  Hope no one got nailed on this one.
Received from my network administrator.

Ed

>Subject: 	Virus Warning
>
>
>"" There is a computer virus that is being sent across the Internet.  You
>receive an email 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"
>nationwide. 
>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.
>
>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-known viruses such as
>"Stones"  "Airwolf" and "Michaelangelo" pale in comparison to the prospects
>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 affected
>and spread through the existing email 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 "Good Times". 
>
>Avoiding infection is easy once the file has been received simply by NOT
>READING IT!  The act of loading the file into the mail servers ASCII buffer
>causes the "GoodTimes" 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.  It will then proceed to trash the computer it is running on.
>
>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 local
>system users of this newest threat to the Internet!  It could save them alot
>of time
>and money.
>
>PASS THIS WARNING ON TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW --- DO IT NOW !!!!!
>