On Mon, 5 Dec 94 22:37:43 CST, rrk@rahul.net (Bob R. Kenyon) wrote:
> At 22:29 12/5/94 -0600, sstones wrote:
> >On Mon, 5 Dec 1994, Charles E. Vaughan wrote:
> >
> >> >>>There is a virus on America Online being sent by E-Mail. If you get
> >> >>>anything called "Good Times", DON'T read it or download it.  It is a
> >> virus >>>that will erase your hard drive.  Be sure to share this with
> >> others.  It >>>may help them a lot.
> >>
> >My brother warned me of one that comes with the subject line XXX1
> >Avoid it too.
> 
> Ok. Someone wanna explain to me how a mail note is going to erase a hard drive?
> 
> A little skepticism might be appropriate here. This sounds a little too
> much like an urban folktale...

      Well, you do remember, perhaps, a little thing called the "Arpanet
Worm" that shut down the entire Internet a few years ago? It worked thru
e-mail. Not all that hard to do, really. I'm sure you've seen uuencoded 
files that become executables again, right?

Harmon Seaver 
hseaver@nyx.cs.du.edu
seaverh@vaxa.cis.uwosh.edu
harmon@buffet.engr.wisc.edu

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