FW: Please read - VIRUSES !!!

[Michael K. Launer]

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>Subject:      FW: Please read - VIRUSES !!!
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>>Date: Sun, 28 Jan 96 13:49:27 PST
>
>>
>>InterAge - the biggest Israeli business site at: http://www.interage.co.il
>>gives you the most important notes all the time. Stay tuned to our site if you
>>want to get all the important information.
>>
>>Please read the following information. If you need more info about those
>Viruses,
>>e-mail us or call us:
>>
>>info at interage.co.il
>>
>>03-5340684
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>>Thanks
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>>       SUBJECT:  VIRUSES--IMPORTANT PLEASE READ IMMEDIATELY
>>*************************************************************************
>>
>> 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" nation wide,
>> 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.
>>******************************************************************
>>
>> WARNING!!!!!!!  INTERNET VIRUS
>> 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
>> engininite binary
>> loop -which can severely damage the processor if left running
>> that way too lo more well-known viruses
>> such as  "Stoned",  "Airwolf"  and  "Michaelangelo"  pale in
>> comparisol 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 email  message  with  the  subject line
>> reading "Good  Times".   Aiding infection  is easy once the
>> file has been received- not reading it!    The act of loading
>> the file into the mail server's ASCII buffer causes the "Good
>> Times" mainline program to initialize and execute.
>e computer it is running on. The
>> bottom line  here 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
>> sure===================================
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Michael K. Launer
Department of Mo