From: sruefly@chemdept.chem.ncsu.edu
Subject: Computer Virus Alert (fwd)
To: faculty@chemdept.chem.ncsu.edu, staff@chemdept.chem.ncsu.edu,
postdocs@chemdept.chem.ncsu.edu, grads@chemdept.chem.ncsu.edu
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 10:39:48 +22310502 (EDT)
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> > 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 t=
> >oo
> > 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
> >buffe=
> >r
> > 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
> >"Goo=
> >d
> > 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.
> > --
> >
> > -------------------------------------------------------
> > Steve S. Bong E-Mail: sbong@camber.com
> > Visualization and GIS Group Phone : (205)-922-0200
> > Camber Corporation Direct: (205)-922-3592
> > 635 Discovery
> > Huntsville, AL 35806 FAX : (205)-922-3599
> > -------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >
> >Rita
> >rpatton@camber.com
> >
>
> *********************
> Rusty Cantrell
> NCSU ChE Dept
> Lab: 919-515-4701
> Fax: 919-515-3465
> Hm: 919-832-4397
>
>
>
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