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Location:           Cost Engineering
Subject:  Warning: Internet Computer Virus 'Good Times'
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Experience:
The following message has been circulated on the Internet.  It
appears to warn of a very serious 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.
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