Date:	Tue, 25 Apr 1995 08:20:50 -0500 (EST)
From:	"John McNair, Postmaster AT utkvx DOT utk DOT edu" <MCNAIR AT utkvx DOT utk DOT edu>
Subject:	Re:
To:	Robert Hamilton Riggar <CLINT AT utkvx DOT utk DOT edu>
Cc:	CarolJRE AT aol DOT com, JaiJEF AT aol DOT com, S_MIMOORE AT pstcc DOT cc DOT tn DOT us,
	jwk7w AT Virginia DOT edu, ARTeja AT aol DOT com, PA13178 AT utkvm1 DOT utk DOT edu,
	BOLES AT utkvx DOT utk DOT edu, rhooker AT utkvx DOT utk DOT edu,
	Timothy R Armstrong <tarmstro AT osf1 DOT gmu DOT edu>,
	Rafiq G Jamaldinian <rjamaldi AT osf1 DOT gmu DOT edu>,
	Kevin L Ellis <kelli2 AT osf1 DOT gmu DOT edu>,
	Bill Currie <BILLC AT teleng1 DOT tait DOT co DOT nz>, 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,
	postmaster AT utkvx DOT utk DOT edu

>>>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.
>>>

There is no "Good Times" virus. It is an urban legend. As noted in the
DOE's CIAC Notes last December 8th:

 THIS IS A HOAX. Upon investigation, CIAC has determined that this message
 originated from both a user of America Online and a student at a university
 at approximately the same time, and it was meant to be a hoax.

and:

 As of this date, there are no known viruses which can infect merely through
 reading a mail message.  For a virus to spread some program must be
 executed. Reading a mail message does not execute the mail message.  Yes,
 Trojans have been found as executable attachments to mail messages, the
 most notorious being the IBM VM Christmas Card Trojan of 1987, also the
 TERM MODULE Worm (reference CIAC Bulletin B-7) and the GAME2 MODULE Worm
 (CIAC Bulletin B-12). But this is not the case for this particular "virus"
 alert.

 If you encounter this message being distributed on any mailing lists, simply
 ignore it or send a follow-up message stating that this is a false rumor.

Thanks for your concern, but please let this hoax die.
John
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John McNair 			   URL:	http://cobweb.utcc.utk.edu/~mcnair 
VMS systems programmer/analyst                   EMail:    jmcnair AT utk DOT edu
University of Tennessee Computing Center         Phone:    (615) 974-6721

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