Cohousing-L Mailing List: Fwd: virus alert

[glenn sharron (mediawks]

>Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 19:43:02 -0500
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>From: Mpaiss [at] aol.com
>To: Multiple recipients of list <cohousing-l [at] freedom.mtn.org>
>Subject: Fwd: virus alert
>X-Comment:  Developing cohousing - collaborative housing communities
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>I'm sharing this with all of you.  I recieved it today and felt it was
>important to all.
>
>Matt
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>Subj:    Fwd: virus alert
>Date:    96-09-27 01:17:28 EDT
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>From:    JoeSilvera
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>Date: 96-09-10 20:24:35 EDT
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>Item    7163982                         10-Sept-96        15:01PDT
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>From:   HYDE                            Hyde, Roby
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>To:     JANICE [at] AGGROUP.COM@INTERNET#    Gateway to Internet/BITNET/UUCP
>        X2372                           Hoffman, Mel,VCA
>        SCOTT1                          Scott, Brian
>        RKUBOTA                         Kubota, Rich
>        NET.DUDE                        Brooks, Kevin (Tech Comm)
>        LOVELL.P                        Peter Lovell,GEIS
>        LOGULLO                         Logullo, Jeff
>        HOREN                           Horen, Bob
>        GARRIGAN                        Garrigan, David
>        FOSTER.BILL                     Foster, Bill
>        DETROYE1                        DeTroye, John
>        BROWNELL1                       Brownell, Andy
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>Sub:    Re: New Virus Warning!
>
>To All:
>
>The "Good Times Virus" alert is renewed!!
>
>The "good times" virus is actually an email message itself which continues to
>be
>forwarded around the Net.
>
>A real virus cannot be transmitted via ASCII text email.
>
>
>>
>  Please Read On!
>>
>>=========================================================================
>>
>>New computer viruses are being sent across the Internet.
>>
>>If you receive an email message with the subject line "Good Times", DO
>>NOT read the message, DELETE it immediately.  Please read the
>>messages below.
>>
>>Some miscreant is sending email under the title "Good Times"
>>nationwide, 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!
>>
>>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 ON LINE
>>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 email 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 email message with
>>the subject line reading "Good Times".
>>
>>Avoiding infection is easy, once the file has been received, simply by
>>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 email address is contained in a receive-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 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.
>>
>>
>>Subject:  New and Dangerous Virus For your information ...
>>
>>DO NOT DOWNLOAD ANY FILE NAMED PKZIP300 REGARDLESS OF THE EXTENSION!
>>We work closely with the military and received this message from a
>>very reliable source in DC this morning.
>>
>>A NEW Trojan Horse Virus has emerged on the internet with the  name
>>PKZIP300.ZIP, so named as to give the impression that this  file is a new
>>version of the PKZIP software used to "ZIP"  (compress) files.
>>
>>DO NOT DOWNLOAD this file under any circumstances!!! If you  install or
>>expand this file, the virus WILL wipe your hard disk clean and affect
>>modems at 14.4 and higher. This is an extremely destructive virus and
>>there is NOT yet a way of cleaning up this one.
>>
>>REPEAT: DO NOT DOWNLOAD ANY FILE NAMED PKZIP300 REGARDLESS OF THE EXTENSION.
>>
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glenn sharron
1310 chowkeebin nene
tallahassee, florida
904.878.5735
"a strong ego makes a good servant, but a poor master."