> WARNING !!!!! URGENT !!!!! WARNING !!!!! > > COPY AND PASS THIS WARNING ON TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW -- DO IT NOW !!!!! > > A new, ultra-dangerous computer virus exists, which will permanentlydestroy > your HARD DRIVE. Do NOT -- repeat -- do NOT download and do not evenREAD > anything if the "Subject" or "Re" lines include the word "Good" -- > specifically: "Good News" or "Good Times." > > Full details follow: > > There is a computer virus that is being sent across the Internet. Ifyou > receive an e-mail message with the subject line "Good Times," DO NOTread the > message, DELETE it immediately. Please read the information below. > > Some miscreant is sending e-mail under the title "Good Times"nationwide, if > you get anything like this, DON'T DOWN LOAD THE FILE! It has a virusthat > rewrites your hard drive, obliterating anything on it. Please becareful and > forward this mail to anyone you care about. > > The Federal Communication Commission released a warning last Wednesday > concerning a matter of major importance to any regular user of theInternet. > Apparently a new computer virus has been engineered by a user ofAMERICA ONLINE > that is unparalleled in its destructive capability. Other more well-known > viruses such as "Stoned," "Airwolf" and "Michaelangelo" pale incomparison to > the prospects of this newest creation by a warped mentality. Whatmakes this > virus so errifying, said the FCC, is the fact that no program needs tobe > exchanged for a new computer to be affected and spread through theexisting > e-mail systems of the Internet. > > Once a computer is infected, one of several things can happen. If thecomputer > contains a hard drive, that will most likely be destroyed. If theprogram is > not stopped,the computer's processor will be placed in an nth-complexity > infinite binary loop - which can severely damage the processor ifleft > running that way too long. Unfortunately, most novice computer userswill not > realize what is happening until it is far too late. Luckily, there isone 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-mailmessage with > the subject line reading "Good Times." Avoiding infection is easyonce the > file has been received simply by NOT READING IT! The act of loadingthe file > into the mail server's ASCII buffer causes the "Good Times" mainlineprogram to > initialize and execute. > > 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 whosever'sname was > on the "From" line was surely struck by the virus. Warn your friendsand local > system users of this newest threat to the Internet! It could savethem a lot > of time and money. > > PASS THIS WARNING ON TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW!!!!! > _____________________________________________________________________ > > Prof. Howard G. Knuttgen, Ph.D. Penn State University 146 REC Building > University Park, PA 16802 Office: [log in to unmask] Voice: 814 865 7110Fax: > 814 863 8106 > > > ------- FORWARD, End of original message -------