Forwarding this in case you haven't picked up on it yet....
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University of Hawaii
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Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 11:39:42 -1000
From: Eileen Broms <broms@hawaii.edu>
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Subject: fwd: VIRUS ALERT!!!!! (fwd)
You can read on but if you get a subject line on your e-mail that says
"Good Times," don't read it. Delete it immediately. It's a "deadly"
computer virus.
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Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 10:55:44 -1000
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Subject: fwd: VIRUS ALERT!!!!! (fwd)
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. 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.
>>
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?
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Sara Robbins
Law Librarian & Professor of Law
Brooklyn Law School
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718-780-0369 (fax)
srobbins.brooklaw@pcm.brooklaw.edu
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