Subject: VIRUS ALERT

[Milena Slavcheva]

>On Thu, 22 Aug 1996, Ludmil Katzarov wrote:
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> From: "cadastre at magi.com" <cadastre at magi.com>
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> Subject: VIRUS ALERT
> Date: 18 Aug 1996 15:34:16 GMT
> Organization: Cadastral Geomatics International Inc.
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> Glen Carter wrote:
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>  The following information was received from Motorola Canada regarding
>  an Internet Virus that is reported to have serious effect on fixed
>  drives.
>
> Date: Tuesday, August 13, 1996
>
>  Subject: Internet Virus
>
>  Please pass on this information to your colleagues.
> 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.  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 DOWNLOAD 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 and used on AMERICA ONLINE that is
>  unparalleled in its destructive capability.  Other more well-known
>  viruses such as "Stoned", "Airwolf" And "Michealangalo" 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 this 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 to late.  Luckily, there is one sure means
>  of detecting what is 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 e-mail server's ASCII buffer causes the
>  "Good Times" mainline program to initialize and execute.
>
>  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
>  whose ever name was on the "From" line was surely struck by the virus.
>     >  Once a computer is infected, one of several this 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 to late.  Luckily, there is one sure means
>  of detecting what is 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 e-mail server's ASCII buffer causes the
>  "Good Times" mainline program to initialize and execute.
>
>  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
>  whose ever name was on the "From" line was surely struck by the virus.
>         Warn your fiends and local system users of this newest threat to the
>  Internet!  It could save them a lot of time and money.
>
>  Could you pass this along to your global mailing list as well?
>
>  Subject:  New and Dangerous Virus for your information.......
>
>  DO NOT DOWNLOAD ANY FILE NAMED PKZIP300 REGARDLESS OF THE EXTENSION
>
>  We work closely with the military and received this message from a
>  very reliable source in DC this morning.
>
>  A NEW Trojan Horse Virus has emerged on the Internet with the
>  namePKZIP300.ZIP, so named as to give the impression that this file is
>  a new version of the PKZIP software used to "Zip" (compress) files.
>
>  DO NOT DOWNLOAD this file under any circumstances!!!  If you install
>  or expand this file, the virus will Wipe your hard disk clean and
>  infect modems at 14.4 and higher.  This is an extremely destructive
> virus and there is NOT yet a way of cleaning up this one.
>
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