(Fwd) VIRUS WARNING

[Eugenio Rizzi <eugenio.r@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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>Date:          Thu, 29 Aug 1996 20:17:17 -0700
>From:          Alberto Antinucci <decowell@sprynet.com>
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>To:            Simon <sjmc@HK.Super.NET>, Rosa Huang <rosa.huang@gs.com>,
>101365.675@compuserve.com, peter.schellenberger@t-online.de,
>vanzella@nline.it, mikeho.upright@worldnet.att.net,
>71154.2012@compuserve.com, concord@hkstar.com,
>lorenzo.zubani@elettrodata.it, askkenho@hk.net,
>100727.1373@compuserve.com, Judy Tseng <judy@dataexpert.com.tw>,
>101664.1145@compuserve.com, jfinke@mail.ttn.com.tw,
>reimann@is-bremen.de, 100311.270@compuserve.com,
>Felice Gaiba <sysop@dns.asianet.it>, 100314.3176@compuserve.com,
>angellin@access.ttn.com.tw, taotwn@email.gcn.net.tw
>Subject:       VIRUS WARNING
>
>ATTENTION : Destructive Internet Viruses
>
>
><1> Subject: 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's 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.
>
><2> 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.
>
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Dr. Eugenio Rizzi
Università degli Studi di Milano
Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra
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