The "Good Times" virus is a hoax. It is not possible to get a virus on your
system by simply reading a text message--you would have to download an
encoded file, decode it and run the program. "Good Times" has been around
for a year or more and even has a web site devoted to the study of the
propogation of this urban legend. If you have web access go to
http://www.yahoo.com and do a search for it.
Phil Carson
_______________________________________________________________________________
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From: heidegger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on Mon, Jan 29, 1996 10:48 AM
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>>At the risk of cross-mailing, and the fact that some of you may have seen
>>this before, I attach the following. In the circumstances it is probably
>>worth any inconvenience caused.
>>
>>John Birch
>>DfEE Public Enquiry Unit
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 10:12:26 +0000
>>From: Roman Hovorka <R.Hovorka@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>Subject: (Fwd) (Fwd) Virus Alert, Please Read
>>
>>Please be aware.
>>
>>Roman
>> ------- Forwarded Message Follows -------
>>Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 09:19:20 +0000
>>To: mfit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, rie74@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
>>r.hovorka@xxxxxxxxxx
>>From: l.lawrence@xxxxxxxxxx (Lis Lawrence)
>>Subject: (Fwd) Virus Alert, Please Read
>>
>>>Comments: Authenticated sender is <jeanentw@dunamis>
>>>From: "Jean Entwistle" <jeanentw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>Organization: Royal Perth Hospital
>>>To: L.Lawrence@xxxxxxxxxx
>>>Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 09:22:08 +0800
>>>Subject: (Fwd) Virus Alert, Please Read
>>>Reply-to: NT075DOMRP/JEANENTW@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>Priority: normal
>>>
>>>Forwarded message:
>>>From: "Clive Snowden" <NT075DOMRP/CLIVSNOW>
>>>Organization: Royal Perth Hospital
>>>To: #NT075DOMRP/MAILUSERS
>>>Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 08:49:21 +0800
>>>Subject: Virus Alert, Please Read
>>>Reply-to: NT075DOMRP/CLIVSNOW
>>>
>>>Good Morning All.
>>>
>>>Attached is a document detailing a new VIRUS that is spread through
>>>the MAIL SYSTEM.
>>>
>>>It is important that you read it!
>>>
>>>------- Forwarded Message Follows -------
>>>
>>>>>>> SUBJECT: VIRUSES--IMPORTANT PLEASE READ IMMEDIATELY
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>>********************************************************
>>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>>>> ---- End of mail text
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>
>>>Regards, Clive
>>>
>>>Phone 224 2980
>>>Fax 224 2990
>>>Mobile 041 990 7980
>>>Speeddial 6772
>>>
>>>--------------------------------------------------
>>>Jean Entwistle
>>>Tel: 224 2237
>>>Email: jeanentw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>
>>>
>>
>>Jo Dandy
>>Programme Co-ordinator
>>Health Management Group
>>City University
>>Tel. 0171 477 8797
>>Fax. 0171 477 8595
>>
>>
>
>
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system by simply reading a text message--you would have to download an
encoded file, decode it and run the program. "Good Times" has been around
for a year or more and even has a web site devoted to the study of the
propogation of this urban legend. If you have web access go to
http://www.yahoo.com and do a search for it.
Phil Carson
_______________________________________________________________________________
To: heidegger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
From: heidegger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on Mon, Jan 29, 1996 10:48 AM
Subject: VIRUS ALERT
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>>
>>At the risk of cross-mailing, and the fact that some of you may have seen
>>this before, I attach the following. In the circumstances it is probably
>>worth any inconvenience caused.
>>
>>John Birch
>>DfEE Public Enquiry Unit
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 10:12:26 +0000
>>From: Roman Hovorka <R.Hovorka@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>Subject: (Fwd) (Fwd) Virus Alert, Please Read
>>
>>Please be aware.
>>
>>Roman
>> ------- Forwarded Message Follows -------
>>Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 09:19:20 +0000
>>To: mfit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, rie74@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
>>r.hovorka@xxxxxxxxxx
>>From: l.lawrence@xxxxxxxxxx (Lis Lawrence)
>>Subject: (Fwd) Virus Alert, Please Read
>>
>>>Comments: Authenticated sender is <jeanentw@dunamis>
>>>From: "Jean Entwistle" <jeanentw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>Organization: Royal Perth Hospital
>>>To: L.Lawrence@xxxxxxxxxx
>>>Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 09:22:08 +0800
>>>Subject: (Fwd) Virus Alert, Please Read
>>>Reply-to: NT075DOMRP/JEANENTW@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>Priority: normal
>>>
>>>Forwarded message:
>>>From: "Clive Snowden" <NT075DOMRP/CLIVSNOW>
>>>Organization: Royal Perth Hospital
>>>To: #NT075DOMRP/MAILUSERS
>>>Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 08:49:21 +0800
>>>Subject: Virus Alert, Please Read
>>>Reply-to: NT075DOMRP/CLIVSNOW
>>>
>>>Good Morning All.
>>>
>>>Attached is a document detailing a new VIRUS that is spread through
>>>the MAIL SYSTEM.
>>>
>>>It is important that you read it!
>>>
>>>------- Forwarded Message Follows -------
>>>
>>>>>>> SUBJECT: VIRUSES--IMPORTANT PLEASE READ IMMEDIATELY
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>>********************************************************
>>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>>>> ---- End of mail text
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>
>>>Regards, Clive
>>>
>>>Phone 224 2980
>>>Fax 224 2990
>>>Mobile 041 990 7980
>>>Speeddial 6772
>>>
>>>--------------------------------------------------
>>>Jean Entwistle
>>>Tel: 224 2237
>>>Email: jeanentw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>
>>>
>>
>>Jo Dandy
>>Programme Co-ordinator
>>Health Management Group
>>City University
>>Tel. 0171 477 8797
>>Fax. 0171 477 8595
>>
>>
>
>
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