PLEASE TAKE NOTE:   EXTREMELY IMPORTANT.... ALERT ALL YOUR FRIENDS
Just rec'd this message re a virus transmitted by simple e-mail on the
internet. Don't read any email titled "Good Times" no matter who it's from.
The virus sends itself to anyone you correspond with (labeled from you),
then crashes your hard drive. The FCC warning is from December-- is this
still going around?
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RE:     Warning - Virus

I JUST GOT THIS MESSAGE ABOUT A VERY NASTY VIRUS.  PLEASE READ AND LET
EVERYONE ELSE YOU COMMUNICATE WITH KNOW. *********************Forwarded
Message****************************


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 DOWNLOAD 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.

Date:    12/2/94 11:59 AM

Subject: INTERNET VIRUS

Thought you might like to know...

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 ina
text e-mail message with the subject line reading simply "Good Times".

Avoiding infection is easy once the file has been received - not
readingit.  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.

END OF MESSAGE