This is a message I received this morning. It seems to be very serious. You
should take a while to read it.


See you

Andrew


>>
>>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.
>>
>>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. 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. 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 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'
>>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?
>>
>>DO NOT DOWNLOAD ANY FILE NAMED PKZIP300 REGARDLESS OF THE EXTENSION
>>
>>We work closely with the military and received this message from a very
>>reliable source in Washington DC this morning.
>>
>>A NEW Trojan Horse Virus has emerged on the internet with the name
>>PKZIP300.ZIP, so named as to give the impression that this file is a
new
>>version of the PKZIP software used to "ZIP" (compress) files.
>>
>>DO NOT DOWNLOAD this file under any circumstances!!! If you install or
>>expand this file, the virus WILL wipe your hard disk clean and affect
>>modems at 14.4 and higher. This is an extremely destructive virus and
>>there
>>is NOT  yet a way of cleaning up this one.
>>
>>REPEAT: DO NOT DOWNLOAD ANY FILE NAMED PKZIP300 REGARDLESS OF THE
>>EXTENSION.
>>Shelley Stienstra, VP Operations, Pinnacle Group








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