ALERT! ALERT! read this now! - not about stocks!
I received this e-mail from a fellow grad. student - This might save your computer so I thought I would pass it on. Please also send this message to those that you care about.
>PLEASE READ VERY IMPORTANT
>
>I received the following warning from a friend today about a new virus
which
>is being propagated through e-mail. "There is a computer virus that is
being
>sent across the Internet. If you receive an email message with the
subject
>line "Good Times", DO NOT read the message, DELETE it immediately. It has
a
>virus that rewrites your hard drive, obliterating anything on it. Please
>forward this mail to anyone you care about."
>
>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-know virusus 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. The
act
>of loading the file in 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 receive-mail file or a sent-mail file, if it can find
one,
>then it trashes the hard drive.
>
>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
>pass this along to any global lists you are on. Also, watch out for a
program
>called PKZIP300.ZIP, so named to give the impression that this file is a
new
>version of PKZIP software. DO NOT DOWNLOAD this file under any
>circumstances! It is a Trojan Horse virus, which will wipe your hard
drive
>clean, and affect modems 14.4 and higher. |
