Exported from SPITFIRE Bulletin Board System on 04-26-95 at 23:14:40.
DATE..... : 04-26-95 23:14:27
TO....... : All
FROM..... : James Boyer
SUBJECT.. : VIRUS WARNING
VIRUS WARNING!
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* WARNING   WARNING   WARNING  WARNING   WARNING   WARNING *
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FYI: This message came from in from NASA!
Forwarded from : Williams, Jim (Nasa Computer GURU)
   READ IMMEDIATLY : WARNING ABOUT A NEW COMPUTER VIRUS RUNNING RAMPENT
   ON THE INTERNET.
   ** HIGH PRIORITY **
   There is a new computer virus being sent across the internet.  If you
   recieve an Email message with the subject line "GOOD TIMES"  --
   "DO NOT" -- DO NOT READ THE MESSAGE, DELETE IT IMMEDIATELY.
    Please read the message below.
   Some miscreant is sending Email under the title "good times"
   nation-wide. If you get anything like this, DON'T DOWNLOAD
   THE FILE OR READ IT!  It has a virus that rewrites your hard disk(s),
   obliterating anything on it.  Please be careful and forward this mail
   to anyone you care about -- I have.
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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 Online that
is unparalleled in its destructive capability.  Other, more well-known
viruses such as Stoned, Airwolf, and Michaelangelo pale in compareson
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.  If
can be spread through the Existing Email Systems of the Internet
(and FIDONET TECHNOLOGIES). Once a computer is infected, one of
several things can happen.  If the computer contains a hard drive
(or more), 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 - 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 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 simply
"GOOD TIMES".
Avoiding infection is easy once the file has been received -- by not
reading it.  The act of loading the file into memory and or the mail
server's ASCII buffer causes the "GOOD TIMES" mainline program to
initalize and execute.  The program is highly intelligent -- it will
send copies of itself to everyone whose Email address is contained
in a received-mail file or a sent-mail file, if it can find one.
It will then proceeed to trash the computer it is running on
(including the hard drives)
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:" like wad surely
struck by the virus.
Warn your friends and local system users of this newest threat to
the InterNet (and FidoNet Style Mail Systems)
It could save them a lot of time and money !!!
   This was forward from a NASA Textfile.
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   THIS IS NOT A JOKE --- DON'T TAKE IT LIGHTLY -- IT IS VERY
   SERIOUS -- READ IT AND PASS IT ALONG ------ ****************
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   ********* StarBase 515 BBS Systems -- 707-769-1624 *********
   22:52:12********************************************04-26-95
   Via 1:161/199@FidoNet.ORG@19950426.225453 FrontDoor 2.12.REG
   I'm sorry if this is off topic -- But it very urgent that every user read
this immedietly -- this virus has already infected some FIDONET SYSTEM!
             James Boyer, SysOp, StarBase 515 BBS.
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