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echo: 12_steps
to: BUD HAGSTROM
from: TIM DILL
date: 1995-11-19 08:09:00
subject: New Virus

On (16 Nov 95) Bud Hagstrom wrote to All...
 BH> Hi All;
 BH> It seems that you get it by downloading some file named "goodtime" or
 BH> something very much like that. This may be a file name or part of a
 BH> program name.
 Can we say "Hoax" I knew you could... this has been around a long time 
 as a hoax and it started on the internet about 2 years ago.
 No virus can be transmitted via text file except if uuencoded. I would not
 accept any file that way unless I knew the person transmitting it to me...
 To all others this is off topic for this echo and need not be answered
 by well meaning folks....
 Tim Dill
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