Hello:
I recently received the following email that is of interest to the
debian community and others.
L. S. Colby
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>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Cameron)
>Subject: Virus Alert
>Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 09:57:26 -0400
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>>Date: Thu, 15 Aug 1996 23:26:49 -0400
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>>Subject: Virus Alert
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>>IMPORTANT MESSAGE!
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>>Subject: FW: Extremely Destructive Virus (fwd)
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>>There is a computer virus that is being sent across the Internet. If 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 email 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.
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>> WARNING!!!!!!! INTERNET VIRUS
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>>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. 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 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. 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 simply by 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
>>email 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.
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>> 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 a lot of time and money. Could you pass this
>>along to your global mailing list as well?
>>
>> George H. Bowers
>> Vice President for Information Systems University of Maryland Medical
>> System 410-328-2579 (fax)410-328-0572 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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