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Please be aware of the following. It should interest us all !
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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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