VIRUS ON THE INTERNET From: <wells@gamenet.demon.co.uk> Date: Sun, 18 Aug 1996 00:00:00 +0000 Not sure if there's anything in this - I picked it up in another newsgroup, but my thoughts were with you guys... gee, ain't that nice. Be careful anyway, and maybe pass the word? ------ Begin Forwarded Message Return-Path: <Dee.Wilson@IAC.honeywell.com> Received: from azmail1.az.honeywell.com (azmail1.Az.Honeywell.COM [129.239.31.102]) by inews1.ix.netcom.com (8.7.5/SMI-4.1/Netcom) id IAA13754; Sat, 17 Aug 1996 08:18:56 -0700 (PDT) X400- Received: by /c=US/admd=MCI/prmd=Honeywell/; converted ( IA5-Text); Relayed; 17 Aug 1996 10:19:39 -0500 X400-Received: by mta HW-MTA-AZ in /c=US/admd=MCI/prmd=Honeywell/; converted ( IA5-Text); Relayed; 17 Aug 1996 10:19:39 -0500 X400-MTS-Identifier: [/c=US/admd=MCI/prmd=Honeywell/; 056EF3215E30B017-HW-MTA-AZ] Content-Identifier: 056EF3215E30B017 Content-Return: Allowed X400-Content-Type: P2-1988 ( 22 ) Conversion: Allowed Original-Encoded-Information-Types: IA5-Text Priority: urgent Disclose-Recipients: Prohibited Alternate-Recipient: Allowed X400-Originator: Dee.Wilson@IAC.honeywell.com X400-Recipients: non-disclosure; Message-Id: <056EF3215E30B017*/c=US/admd=MCI/prmd=Honeywell/o=AZ-MTA/ou=MSMail/ou=IA C/s=Wilson/g=Dee/@MHS> Subject: Virus Alert >> >>IMPORTANT MESSAGE! >> >>Subject: FW: Extremely Destructive Virus (fwd) >> >>There is a computer virus that is 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. >> >> WARNING!!!!!!! INTERNET 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 ON LINE that is >>unparalleled in its destructive capability. 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. 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. Could you pass this >>along to your global mailing list as well? >> >> George H. Bowers >> Vice President for Information Systems University of Maryland Medical >> System 410-328-2579 (fax)410-328-0572 gbowers@umms_itg.ab.umd.edu **************>> END - Scares the crap out of me, that's for sure! "Good Times"? Why do these morons always have to have a sick sense of humour as well? Dave. -- Dave Wells Referenced By Up