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Started by M. Bates
Thu, 25 Jul 1996 00:00
Not Spam: FRWD Info: Reported Internet/Email Virus, authored by AOL member (?)
Author: M. Bates
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 00:00
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 00:00
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This is FYI, in the event that the info about this "Good Times" e-mail virus which was forwarded to me, is accurate and valid. According to forward from mhorn@ccnet.com, hammfam@aola.com, parkersdad@aol.com, Tgreger@aol.com, clover@A.crl.com, as forwarded to HannaClay@aol.com, and then to the members of an aol tv show club, the FCC supposedly released info "Wednesday" (orig forward dated 6/6) as follows [I have snipped and condensed]: The "Good Times" virus, purportedly authored and distributed by an AOL member, infects via e-mail. If you get any e-mail message with its name in the Subject line, DO NOT READ THE MESSAGE, DELETE THE MESSAGE IMMEDIATELY. It reportedly rewrites your hard drive, puts "Stones", "Airwold" and "Michaelangelo" to shame, and NO PROGRAM NEEDS TO BE EXCHANGED FOR A NEW COMPUTER TO BE INFECTED; it can be spread through e-mail systems on the Net. Once infected, either the HD is destroyed, or the processor is placed in an "nth-complexity infinite binary loop - which can severly damage the processor if left running that way too long." Most users would not recognize the tainted message for what it is, and loading the file in the mail-server's buffer causes the virus' mainline program to initialize and execute. It will send copies of itself to everyone whose e-mail address is contained in a receive-mail file or a sent-mail file, if it can find one. "Could you pass this along to your global mailing list as well?" Whether this is actual or not, I have no way of knowing, but I am forwarding the info just in case, to the NG's to which I suscribe. Best Regards, M. Bates queenbts@netzone.com
Re: Not Spam: FRWD Info: Reported Internet/Email Virus, authored by AOL member (?)
Author: Joe Kamper
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 00:00
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 00:00
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On 25 Jul 1996 15:26:11 GMT, "M. Bates" <Pqueenbts@mail.netzone.com> wrote: >This is FYI, in the event that the info about this "Good Times" e-mail >virus which was forwarded to me, is accurate and valid. The good times virus is a hoax perpetrated by and upon people who apparently don't know any better.
Re: Not Spam: FRWD Info: Reported Internet/Email Virus, authored by AOL member (?)
Author: Jennifer Bales
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 00:00
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 00:00
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> . . . > > The "Good Times" virus, purportedly authored and distributed by an AOL > member, infects via e-mail. If you get any e-mail message with its name > in the Subject line, DO NOT READ THE MESSAGE, DELETE THE MESSAGE > IMMEDIATELY. I have seen this hoax at least ten times. No one ever explains why the author would give it such a give-away subject line. Why not call it "Re: your question" or something innocuous like that? Sincerely, Jennifer
Re: FRWD Info: Email Virus is Hoax
Author: M. Bates
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 00:00
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 00:00
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::jtk@primenet.com (Joe Kamper) wrote:
>>On 25 Jul 1996 15:26:11 GMT, "M. Bates"
>>queenbts@mail.netzone.com>>wrote:
>>This is FYI, in the event that the info about this "Good Times"
>>e-mail>>virus which was forwarded to me, is accurate and valid.
::The good times virus is a hoax perpetrated by and upon people who
::apparently don't know any better.
Well, thank you very much for letting me know that. We can't all know
everything, about everything -- especially a hoax which is over a year
old. Too bad you apparently didn't take the information, albeit a hoax
(which I obviously didn't know at the time) in the spirit in which it was
intended. It may interest you to know that I posted a correction a short
time later, as a kind soul *did* email me with the hoax info and the Good
Times FAQ address which I included in my correcting apology.
You are fortunate to be so well and historically informed.
Re: Not Spam: FRWD Info: Reported Internet/Email Virus, authored by AOL member (?)
Author: Wendy Marsden
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 00:00
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 00:00
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M. Bates (Pqueenbts@mail.netzone.com) wrote: > This is FYI, in the event that the info about this "Good Times" e-mail > virus which was forwarded to me, is accurate and valid. The Good Times virus, like almost all the chain mail letters, works by getting nice people to forward it to everyone they know or something bad will happen (or something good won't happen. They can nearly paralyze the internet. There is no email virus that wipes out harddrives. The letter, and the worry it causes and the backlash of illwill towards nice-hearted people, THAT's the virus. Craig Shergold doesn't need cards. Nieman-Marcus doesn't make cookies. Elementary kids don't need you to forward letters to everyone you know. ***MAKE MONEY FAST*** doesn't work. All are bogus, and all come around regularly. Don't spam.
Re: FRWD Info: Email Virus is Hoax
Author: Mike Miller
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 00:00
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 00:00
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M. Bates wrote: > > ::jtk@primenet.com (Joe Kamper) wrote: > >>On 25 Jul 1996 15:26:11 GMT, "M. Bates" > >>queenbts@mail.netzone.com>>wrote: > >>This is FYI, in the event that the info about this "Good Times" > >>e-mail>>virus which was forwarded to me, is accurate and valid. > > ::The good times virus is a hoax perpetrated by and upon people who > ::apparently don't know any better. > > Well, thank you very much for letting me know that. We can't all know > everything, about everything -- especially a hoax which is over a year > old. Too bad you apparently didn't take the information, albeit a hoax > (which I obviously didn't know at the time) in the spirit in which it was > intended. It may interest you to know that I posted a correction a short > time later, as a kind soul *did* email me with the hoax info and the Good > Times FAQ address which I included in my correcting apology. > > You are fortunate to be so well and historically informed. I don't think Joe (or Jennifer) were trying to be mean in what they were stating, only being informative, but I could be just playing Pollyanna here... At any rate, I, for one, am thankful for your good intentions, even if it was a misguided effort, I think it was still done in good faith for the manner of considerately alerting other newgroupies to a possible danger--after all, isn't it supposed to be the "thought that counts"? ~~Christina~~
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