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Subject: Fwd: FYI--Virus
 
***************************** VIRUS ALERT *************************************
 
     FYI !  Please give widest dissemination possible!!
 
     ** High Priority **
 
     PLEASE READ THIS CAREFULLY!
 
     The following notice came across my internet connect this morning and
     will be released by DOE-HQ today, although it may be too late in some
     cases.  "There is a new 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" 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.
 
     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
     unparalled 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 test 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 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."  Please pass
     this on...especially to anyone you know that uses "America Online"
     regularly.
 
***************************** VIRUS ALERT *************************************
 
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