Hello all...just thought I would pass this along.....

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>  Subject:  PLEASE READ: VIRUS ALERT!
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>  Author:  Jeff Allard at WJPA-DFT
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>  Date:    12/6/95 2:30 PM
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>     SUBJECT:  VIRUSES--IMPORTANT PLEASE READ IMMEDIATELY
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>       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
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>       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.
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>       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.
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>     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.
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