IMPORTANT VIRUS INFORMATION
Scott Kramer
>I received the following message earlier today and thought I'd pass it on
>to you:
>
>
>>There is a computer virus that is being sent across the
>>Internet. If you receive an e-mail message with the subject
>>line "Good Times", DO NOT read the message, DELETE it
>>immediately. Please read the messages below. Some >miscreant is sending
> e-mail under the title "Good Times" >nation wide, 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.
>
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>>WARNING!!!!!!! INTERNET VIRUS
>
>>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 e-mail 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- 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 e-mail 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 here 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.
>
>> E N D O F N O T E
>
>...peace on earth,
> Adriyel
>
>"Where the sky begins the horizon ends, despite the best intentions."
> - Tom Petty
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Craig Winter
This isn't nearly as bad as the new So-So Times virus which uses new think and destroy
technology. Merely thinking the phrase So-So Times will cause your computer to
spontaneously combust, cause your processor to go into an xth iteration velcro hook and
loop (well known to cause cancer in laboratory children), will cause the shingles
on your roof to turn into twinkies, and will severly degrade performance on the
Morristown POP's.
Please, whatever you do, do not even think the phrase So-So Times! If you do, the only
antidote is to instantly find the Good Times virus and read it five times fast. If you
want, I can e-mail it to you. Look for e-mail with the subject GOOD TIMES.
Craig
Craig Winter
virus modified it (the way he did it was far to complicated to explain)
but basically he/she took the email, changed the subject line to
"How's it going" and 15 derivatives of this well known phrase. and
re-sent the virus. (no one has figured out how he/she did it.) So if
you have any e-mail's on your system with "How's it going" (or anything
vaguely similar to that) as the subject line, DELETE THEM IMMEDIATELY,
do not read them!
There is a rumor that the GOOD TIMES virus was modified to work as
news post, so be careful when reading news posts. I think this version
of the virus can only be transmitted if the subject line of the post is
"Re: IMPORTANT VIRUS INFORMATION", so if you see any posts like that it
is a sure bet that you have just downloaded the virus. The only fix for
this is to immediatley shut off your computer, turn it back on, turn it
off half-way through booting, re-boot, load every relational database on
your hard drive, start re-indexing them, start a disk defragmentation
program, and shut the computer off exactly 10.7% through the re-index.
Then remove your hard drive, and soak it along with every backup tape
you own in a vat of listerine for 3 weeks.
Craig
Angela
>
>>>There is a computer virus that is being sent across the
>>>Internet. If you receive an e-mail message with the subject
>>>line "Good Times", DO NOT read the message, DELETE it
>>>immediately. Please read the messages below.
>>>bottom line here 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.
>>
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> THE INTERSTATE : WHERE IT ALL BEGINS...
> de...@soho.ios.com http://soho.ios.com/~deeto
> ______________________________________________________________________
Noooooo!
Not that wicked Good Times AGAIN!:)
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So many people, so few bullets....
Harvey R.Stone
>
> This was posted on a guitar newsgroup. It's really quite interesting:
>
> >I received the following message earlier today and thought I'd pass it on
> >to you:
> >
> >
> >>Internet. If you receive an e-mail message with the subject
> >>line "Good Times", DO NOT read the message, DELETE it
> >>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.
> >
> >
> >...peace on earth,
> > Adriyel
> >
> >"Where the sky begins the horizon ends, despite the best intentions."
> > - Tom Petty
>
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thank you scott. i am sending this to people i care about.
Harv
Harvey R.Stone
>
> Scott Kramer <de...@soho.ios.com> wrote:
> >
> >>>There is a computer virus that is being sent across the
> >>>Internet. If you receive an e-mail message with the subject
> >>>line "Good Times", DO NOT read the message, DELETE it
> >>>immediately. Please read the messages below.
>
>
> >>>bottom line here 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.
> >>
>
>
> > THE INTERSTATE : WHERE IT ALL BEGINS...
> > de...@soho.ios.com http://soho.ios.com/~deeto
> > ______________________________________________________________________
>
Harv
Scott R. Godin
What about the END TIMES VIRUS???!?!
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From: prjo...@facstaff.wisc.edu (Peter R. Johnson)
Newsgroups: misc.consumers.frugal-living
Subject: CAUTION: END TIMES VIRUS!!!!
BEWARE*********BEWARE*********BEWARE*********BEWARE*********BEWARE*******BEWARE
IT MAY ALREADY BE TOO LATE !!!!!!!!!
There is a new virus on the 'net. Called "The End Times Virus" this nasty
program is SPREAD VIA E-MAIL. It's the latest of a new strain of viruses called
"Prions" which were developed by the NSA for International Internet Security.
Prions aren't even computer viruses in the traditional sense, rather they are a
new kind of self-extracting, self executing BinHex algorithm which can bypass
ALL KNOWN forms of computer security. There is NO DEFENSE.
What does "The End Times Virus" do?
The End Times Virus is spread via E-Mail. Every time you send mail to someone
through the 'net, it runs the risk of picking up a portion of "The End Times
Virus" code. When all parts of the virus are stored in a given system, the
program will SELF COMPILE and SELF EXECUTE. "The End Times Virus" will then
begin an Infinitely Regressive Binary Loop, which will INCREASE the clock speed
of your CPU. The NET result of this increase in clock speed will be an increase
in the percieved passage of time.
How can I tell if "The End Times Virus" has infected my system?
The FIRST clue will be when a task that used to take "X" amount of time seems
to take longer. Things that HAVEN'T HAPPENED YET will then BEGIN TO OCCUR.
Eventually, the FUTURE will gradually MERGE WITH THE PRESENT, and then RAPIDLY
RECEDE into the PAST. Your computer system will BECOME OBSOLETE at a much
faster rate. Your CAR will DEPRECIATE in value. Events, such as birthdays,
weddings, vacations, etc. which seemed to be FAR IN THE FUTURE will, before you
know it, BE OVER. You will AGE RAPIDLY, sometimes as much as 365 1/3 DAYS per
YEAR!! Your CHILDREN are NOT IMMUNE! They, too, will age rapidly, sometimes
even MORE RAPIDLY than you. Eventually THE FUTURE, as you know it, WILL CEASE
TO HAVE MEANING for you. It will become ONE with THE PAST, and, eventually,
will RUN OUT ALL TOGETHER.
What can I, as a concerned, thinking individual do about this threat to
our modern way of life?
There are a few steps you can take.
1) Format your hard disk, WITHOUT backing it up.
Scientists have found that this is THE ONLY WAY to eliminate this
threat from infected systems.
2) GET RID OF YOUR CAR! Contact the e-mail address at the bottom of this
message, and highly trained technicians will come and REMOVE your car
FREE OF CHARGE for proper disposal.
3) LIVE FOR THE MOMENT!! It may be ALL you have LEFT. NOBODY is going to
have fun FOR you anymore.
4) SPREAD THE WORD! let EVERYONE you know hear about this threat, Call
them, write to them, forward this message to them. GET THE WORD OUT!!
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RichardBennett
>
> This was posted on a guitar newsgroup. It's really quite interesting:
>
> >I received the following message earlier today and thought I'd pass it on
> >to you:
> >
> >
> >>Internet. If you receive an e-mail message with the subject
> >>line "Good Times",
Please stop posting this message. It has been a leading Internet hoax for years.
rgb
Scott Kramer
I really thought that it was an April's fool's joke, but as some people
say (not me), "You can never be too careful!"
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John Long
RichardBennett <benn...@tribeca.ios.com> wrote:
>Scott Kramer wrote:
>>
>> This was posted on a guitar newsgroup. It's really quite interesting:
>>
>> >I received the following message earlier today and thought I'd pass it on
>> >to you:
>> >
>> >
>> >>There is a computer virus that is being sent across the
>> >>Internet. If you receive an e-mail message with the subject
>> >>line "Good Times",
>
>Please stop posting this message. It has been a leading Internet hoax for years.
>
>rgb
Yeah, I'll stop when everybody else does, kinda thing...