---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 17 Nov 1995 15:39:27 -0800 From: Jason Souilliard <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask] Subject: Fwd: VIRUS ALERT (fwd) Here be careful with what you people are recieving. This can destroy you computer. PLease read. It's a smart thing to do. ---- Begin Forwarded Message Return-Path: <[log in to unmask]> Received: from acs7.acs.ucalgary.ca by ix6.ix.netcom.com (8.6.12/SMI-4.1/Netcom) id JAA13506; Fri, 17 Nov 1995 09:44:11 -0800 Received: by acs5.acs.ucalgary.ca (AIX 4.1/UCB 5.64/4.03) id AA50886; Fri, 17 Nov 1995 10:44:38 -0700 Date: Fri, 17 Nov 1995 10:44:38 -0700 (MST) From: Christina Marshall <[log in to unmask]> To: Jason Souilliard <[log in to unmask]> Subject: VIRUS ALERT (fwd) Message-Id: <[log in to unmask]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 20:49:18 -0700 (MST) From: Ryan Henry Stelmaschuk <[log in to unmask]> To: Christina Marshall <[log in to unmask]> Subject: VIRUS ALERT (fwd) You might be interested in this. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 20:53:24 -0700 (MST) From: Brian Andrew Calder <[log in to unmask]> To: Ryan Stelmaschuk <[log in to unmask]> Subject: VIRUS ALERT (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 23 Oct 1995 13:31:05 -0600 (MDT) From: Ryan Warnock <[log in to unmask]> To: Brian Calder <[log in to unmask]> Subject: VIRUS ALERT (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 23 Oct 95 0:22:10 MDT From: Leanne Michelle Close <[log in to unmask]> To: Ryan Warnock <[log in to unmask]> Cc: Andrea Gail Repas <[log in to unmask]> Subject: VIRUS ALERT (fwd) Forwarded message: >From vlam Sun Oct 22 14:13:10 1995 Errors-To: [log in to unmask] Reply-To: [log in to unmask] Sender: [log in to unmask] Date: Sun, 22 Oct 1995 14:10:26 -0600 (MDT) From: Vivian <[log in to unmask]> To: Herman Hiu-man Wan <[log in to unmask]> Cc: Augustus Ho <[log in to unmask]>, Edward Gunther Ha <[log in to unmask]>, Communications Class <[log in to unmask]>, Kwok-Yin Connie Ho <[log in to unmask]>, William Tsoi <[log in to unmask]>, Mr Ka Pui Chan <[log in to unmask]>, Judia Lau <[log in to unmask]>, "Yik (Yick) Feng Tan" <[log in to unmask]>, Ricky Ng <[log in to unmask]>, Juan Huang <[log in to unmask]>, Jyoti Patel <[log in to unmask]>, Ken Lo <[log in to unmask]>, Jason Yee <[log in to unmask]>, "Eva (jf) Man" <[log in to unmask]> Subject: VIRUS ALERT (fwd) In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> Message-Id: <[log in to unmask]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++ > David A. McLean [log in to unmask] "Check this out! See > GNST, CPSC [log in to unmask] if this one moves you" > 781 RCACS http://www.ucalgary.ca/~damclean/ - M. Bivins > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++ > > >> > >>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--I have. > >> > >>*********************Forwarded Message**************************** > >>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 Online 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 > >> e-mail message with the subject line reading simply "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 received-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. > > > >>- - - - - - - - - - Rodolfo Konig - - - - - - - - - - > >> r k o n i g @ w p i. e d u > >> h t t p://w w w. w p i. e d u / ~r k o n i g/ > >>- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -