Re: FYI: virus alert

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1996

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texte = This is a hoax. It has been for almost 2 years. Reading an email can have no effect on your hard drive unless you're running an older version of Unix with an old version of sendmail.>Subject: FYI: virus alert>Sent: 12/4/96 7:10 AM>Received: 12/4/96 8:23 AM>From: Tom, tom@incontrol.mv.com>Reply-To: WebDNA-Talk@smithmicro.com>To: Multiple recipients of, WebDNA-Talk@talk.smithmicro.com>>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 EST>From: 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.com>Subject: Computer Virus Warning!> >Friends and colleagues>>Subject: Computer Virus Warning!>>>Following is a virus warning received today:>>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 MESSAGE 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.>>>>-------------------->Ralph Potente>CyberData, Inc.>Tel: 516/942-8000>Fax: 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)

This is a hoax. It has been for almost 2 years. Reading an email can have no effect on your hard drive unless you're running an older version of Unix with an old version of sendmail.>Subject: FYI: virus alert>Sent: 12/4/96 7:10 AM>Received: 12/4/96 8:23 AM>From: Tom, tom@incontrol.mv.com>Reply-To: WebDNA-Talk@smithmicro.com>To: Multiple recipients of, WebDNA-Talk@talk.smithmicro.com>>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 EST>From: 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.com>Subject: Computer Virus Warning!> >Friends and colleagues>>Subject: Computer Virus Warning!>>>Following is a virus warning received today:>>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 MESSAGE 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.>>>>-------------------->Ralph Potente>CyberData, Inc.>Tel: 516/942-8000>Fax: 516/942-0800>--------------------> Daniel Brown

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Re: FYI: virus alert

1996

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