FW: Virus warning (fwd)

[suzanne fleischman]

>Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 13:30:43 GMT
>From: Teresa Bridgeman <T.M.Bridgeman at bristol.ac.uk>
>Subject: FW: Virus warning (fwd)
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>From: Dee Reynolds <D.A.Reynolds at bristol.ac.uk>
>Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 20:30:33 GMT
>Subject: FW: Virus warning (fwd)
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>From: Pumfrey S <S.Pumfrey at lancaster.ac.uk>
>Date: Tue, 30 Jan 96 15:11:00 GMT
>Subject: FW: Virus warning
>To: Dee Reynolds <D.A.Reynolds at bristol.ac.uk>
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>From: Bliss R
>To: HARMAN P; Winchester A; Evans E; O'neill G; Brooke J; Walton J; Cross J;
>Stringer K; Blinkhorn R; Heale M; Mullett M; Winstanley M; Palladino P;
>Henig R; Smith R o g e r; Constantine S; Barber S; Pumfrey S; MUNBY J
>Subject: FW: Virus warning
>Date: 30 January 1996 14:34
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>From: Clements J
>To: Armitage S
>Cc: Ashcroft K; Bird K; Gardner M M; Collins R; Wareham T; Coleman R; Clark
>W; Mcenery A; Bliss R; Kirby M; Borlase R; G.Inkster
>Subject: FW: Virus warning
>Date:  30 January 1996 14:10
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>From: Lindsay M
>To: Glass B; Bland D; Lindsay R; Brennan S; Reed C; Thomson A; Clements J;
>Dawson D; Widden M; SAUNDERS I J; Edmonds M; Elliott P
>Subject: FW: Virus warning
>Date: 30 January 1996 12:12
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>From: Hands H
>To: Lindsay M; WORTHINGTON C; COHAN A; DENVER D; HOPFL H; KING P;
>Travers D;
>Worthington M; Wilkin P; GARETH DAVIES; Ms H Willes; I Bellany
>Subject: RE: Virus warning
>Date: 30 January 1996 10:53
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>> Andrew Sayer sent me the following virus warning, which has
>> been circulated round Sociology.
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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
>> >>>>>> engineered by  a user of AMERICA ON LINE that is unparalleled
>> >>>>>> in its destructive capability.  Other more well-known viruses
>> >>>>>> such as  "Stoned",  "Airwolf"  and  "Michaelangelo"  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 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 email  message  with  the  subject line
>> >>>>>> reading "Good  Times".   Avoiding 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.
>> >>>>>>     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  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
>> >>>>>> surely struck  by the  virus.   Warn your  friends and local
>> >>>>>> system users  of this newest threat to the Internet! It could
>> >>>>>> save them a lot of time and money.
>> >>>>>>> ---- End of mail text
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