On Sat, 18 Nov 95 10:20:16 PST, you wrote:
>On Thu, 16 Nov 1995, Aliza R. Panitz wrote:
>>> I know that GOOD TIMES is going around again...
>
>>Sooner or later, someone who wants to be really nasty is going to
>>actually gread a GOOD TIMES virus, maybe through a word macro, and wreak
>>a lot of havoc. So *MANY* people are now progammed to respond "hoax"
>>when they hear "GOOD TIMES VIRUS" that the wolf will be able to eat the
>>sheep.
>Now, wouldn't that be a damned successful social engineering attack!!
>
>Calvin Ng email: <calvinng @
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Someone DID write a real virus with this name given to it by the powers
that be in the virus naming world, but they decided to change the name
since it caused too much confusion.... <g>
Bob
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