Date:	Fri, 21 Apr 1995 16:34:23 +1100
From:	Bill Currie <BILLC AT teleng1 DOT tait DOT co DOT nz>
Subject:	Internet Virus Alert
To:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu, leis AT usq DOT edu DOT au, d DOT edwards AT eas DOT gu DOT edu DOT au,
	76247 DOT 3453 AT compuserve DOT com
Organization:	Tait Electronics Ltd.

People, 
           I have just received the following fowarded message from the
University of Canterbury concerning a virus currently active on the internet.
           I suggest you read on or suffer the possibly spectacular
consequences if you use the internet (Pegasus Mail etc) !!


>** High Priority **
>>
>>
>>*********************Forwarded Message****************************
>>
>>
>>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 DOWNLOAD 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--I have.
>>*******************************************************************
>>
>>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 Online 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 ina text e-mail message with the subject line reading simply "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 received-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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