FYI: virus alert

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1996

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texte = I received an email about a 2 pretty nasty virusses (virusii?) today -> GOODTIMES and PKZIP300. Spread the word.Bye for now! ---------------------------------Forwarded message #1 Date: Tue Dec 03, 1996 12:09 pm ESTFrom: Ralph G. Potente EMS: INTERNET / MCI ID: 376-5414 MBX: ralph%cyberdata.com@fwd.com TO: rpotente EMS: INTERNET / MCI ID: 376-5414 MBX: rpotente%cyberdata.com@fwd.comSubject: Computer Virus Warning! Friends and colleaguesSubject: Computer Virus Warning!Following is a virus warning received today:There is a computer virus that is being sent across the Internet. If youreceive an email message with the subject line GOOD TIMES, DO NOT read themessage, DELETE it immediately.PLEASE READ THE MESSAGE BELOW Some miscreant is sending email under the title Good Times nationwide, ifyou get anything like this, DON'T DOWN LOAD THE FILE! It has a virus thatrewrites your hard drive, obliterating anything on it. Please be carefuland forward this mail to anyone you care about. The FCC released a warninglast Wednesday concerning a matter of major importance to any regular userof the Internet. Apparently a new computer virus has been engineered by auser of AMERICA ON LINE that is unparalleled in its destructive capability.Other more well-known viruses such as Stoned, Airwolf andMichaelangelo pale in comparison to the prospects of this newest creationby 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 beinfected. It can be spread through the existing email systems of the Internet.Once a Computer is infected, one of several things can happen. If thecomputer contains a hard drive, that will most likely be destroyed. If theprogram is not stopped, the computer's processor will be placed in annth-complexity infinite binary loop -which can severely damage the processorif left running that way too long.Unfortunately, most novice computer users will not realize what is happeninguntil it is far too late. Luckily, there is one sure means of detectingwhat is now known as the Good Times virus. It always travels to newcomputers the same way in a text email message with the subject line readingGood Times. Avoiding infection is easy once the file has been receivedsimply by NOT READING IT! The act of loading the file into the mail server'sASCII buffer causes the Good Times mainline program to initialize and execute.The program is highly intelligent - it will send copies of itself toeveryone whose email address is contained in a receive-mail file or asent-mail file, if it can find one. It will then proceed to trash thecomputer it is running on.The bottom line is: - if you receive a file with the subject line GoodTimes, delete it immediately! Do not read it Rest assured that whoever'name was on the From line was surely struck by the virus. Warn yourfriends and local system users of this newest threat to the Internet! Itcould save them a lot of time and money.Could you pass this along to your global mailing list as well?DO NOT DOWNLOAD ANY FILE NAMED PKZIP300 REGARDLESS OF THE EXTENSIONWe work closely with the military and received this message from a veryreliable source in Washington DC this morning.A NEW Trojan Horse Virus has emerged on the Internet with the namePKZIP300.ZIP, so named as to give the impression that this file is a newversion of the PKZIP software used to ZIP (compress) files.DO NOT DOWNLOAD this file under any circumstances!!! If you install orexpand this file, the virus WILL wipe your hard disk clean and affect modemsat 14.4 and higher. This is an extremely destructive virus and there is NOTyet a way of cleaning up this one.REPEAT: DO NOT DOWNLOAD ANY FILE NAMED PKZIP300 REGARDLESS OF THE EXTENSION.--------------------Ralph PotenteCyberData, Inc.Tel: 516/942-8000Fax: 516/942-0800-------------------- Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

Re: FYI: virus alert (Jay Towslee 1996)
Re: FYI: virus alert (Daniel Brown 1996)
FYI: virus alert (Tom 1996)

I received an email about a 2 pretty nasty virusses (virusii?) today -> GOODTIMES and PKZIP300. Spread the word.Bye for now! ---------------------------------Forwarded message #1 Date: Tue Dec 03, 1996 12:09 pm ESTFrom: Ralph G. Potente EMS: INTERNET / MCI ID: 376-5414 MBX: ralph%cyberdata.com@fwd.com TO: rpotente EMS: INTERNET / MCI ID: 376-5414 MBX: rpotente%cyberdata.com@fwd.comSubject: Computer Virus Warning! Friends and colleaguesSubject: Computer Virus Warning!Following is a virus warning received today:There is a computer virus that is being sent across the Internet. If youreceive an email message with the subject line GOOD TIMES, DO NOT read themessage, DELETE it immediately.PLEASE READ THE MESSAGE BELOW Some miscreant is sending email under the title Good Times nationwide, ifyou get anything like this, DON'T DOWN LOAD THE FILE! It has a virus thatrewrites your hard drive, obliterating anything on it. Please be carefuland forward this mail to anyone you care about. The FCC released a warninglast Wednesday concerning a matter of major importance to any regular userof the Internet. Apparently a new computer virus has been engineered by auser of AMERICA ON LINE that is unparalleled in its destructive capability.Other more well-known viruses such as Stoned, Airwolf andMichaelangelo pale in comparison to the prospects of this newest creationby 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 beinfected. It can be spread through the existing email systems of the Internet.Once a Computer is infected, one of several things can happen. If thecomputer contains a hard drive, that will most likely be destroyed. If theprogram is not stopped, the computer's processor will be placed in annth-complexity infinite binary loop -which can severely damage the processorif left running that way too long.Unfortunately, most novice computer users will not realize what is happeninguntil it is far too late. Luckily, there is one sure means of detectingwhat is now known as the Good Times virus. It always travels to newcomputers the same way in a text email message with the subject line readingGood Times. Avoiding infection is easy once the file has been receivedsimply by NOT READING IT! The act of loading the file into the mail server'sASCII buffer causes the Good Times mainline program to initialize and execute.The program is highly intelligent - it will send copies of itself toeveryone whose email address is contained in a receive-mail file or asent-mail file, if it can find one. It will then proceed to trash thecomputer it is running on.The bottom line is: - if you receive a file with the subject line GoodTimes, delete it immediately! Do not read it Rest assured that whoever'name was on the From line was surely struck by the virus. Warn yourfriends and local system users of this newest threat to the Internet! Itcould save them a lot of time and money.Could you pass this along to your global mailing list as well?DO NOT DOWNLOAD ANY FILE NAMED PKZIP300 REGARDLESS OF THE EXTENSIONWe work closely with the military and received this message from a veryreliable source in Washington DC this morning.A NEW Trojan Horse Virus has emerged on the Internet with the namePKZIP300.ZIP, so named as to give the impression that this file is a newversion of the PKZIP software used to ZIP (compress) files.DO NOT DOWNLOAD this file under any circumstances!!! If you install orexpand this file, the virus WILL wipe your hard disk clean and affect modemsat 14.4 and higher. This is an extremely destructive virus and there is NOTyet a way of cleaning up this one.REPEAT: DO NOT DOWNLOAD ANY FILE NAMED PKZIP300 REGARDLESS OF THE EXTENSION.--------------------Ralph PotenteCyberData, Inc.Tel: 516/942-8000Fax: 516/942-0800-------------------- Tom

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FYI: virus alert

1996

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