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Yours sincerely,
Robert Honore
robert_at_digi-data.com
Phone: 623 6658 Fax: 623 0978
Snail Mail: Digi Data systems limited, 96 Wrightson Road,
Trinidad, W. I.
> If one didn't have to WORK for a living, WORK would be MUCH MORE FUN!
attached mail follows:
attached mail follows:
Subject: Internet Virus
Please pass on this information to your colleagues.
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' ame 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?
Subject: New and Dangerous Virus For your information ...
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 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.
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_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ Brian Acham mailto : bach_at_trinidad.net
_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ Operations Manager
http://www.trinidad.net
_/_/_/_/_/_/ InterServ Limited Phone : (809) 637-6862
_/_/_/_/_/ Trinidad & Tobago
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Received on Wed Jul 31 1996 - 17:21:27 NZST