[Fwd: Deadly New Virus]

[Sturm]

The good times virus is bullshit - viruses can't do anything unless 
they're executed, and you _can't_ execute a mail message.

> Thought this may interest you!
> >>
> >> Hi Gang,
> >> I just received a new and deadly virus report and though you may be
> interested
> >> in seeing it.
> >>
> >> QUOTE - 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.
> Someone 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 you hard drive,
> >> obliterating anything on it.
> >>
> >> 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 AMERICAN 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. It 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 dames the processor if left running
> >> that way too long.
> >>
> >> Unfortunately, most novice computer users will not realize what is happening
> >> until it is far to late. Luckily, there is one sure means of detecting
> what is
> >> now knows as the "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 of a sent-mail
> file, if
> >> it can find one. It will then proceed to trash the computer it is running on.
> >> END-QUOTE.
> >>
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