Aliases: None known as at 17th. March 2004
Variants: None known as at 17th. March 2004
Date Added: 28th. January 1999
Further Information:
Origin: Not available
Length: Not available
Type: Hoax
SubType: E-mail
Risk Assessment: Low
Characteristics: This is NOT
an actual virus. Below is a copy of the actual text
which was circulated.
QUOTE:
PLEASE READ THE MESSAGE BELOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Some miscreant is sending email under the title "Good Times"
nationwide, if you get anything like this, DON'T DOWN LOAD
THE FILE!
It has a virus that rewrites your hard drive, obliterating anything t.
Please be careful and forward this mail to anyone you care about. Te
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 email 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 simply by 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 email 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 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.
Could you pass this along to your global mailing list as well?
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********IMPORTANT*******
PLEASE SEND TO PEOPLE YOU CARE ABOUT OR JUST
PEOPLE ONLINE
END OF QUOTE
Symptoms: Not Available...
Method Of Infection: Not Available...
Removal Instructions: Not Available...
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