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Subject: Self activating E-mail viruses? ie, please tell me where to go :)
From: JOHN @ lincc . ccla . lib . fl . us
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 8:46:28 -0400 (EDT)
To: firewalls @ greatcircle . com

Being new to the internet I am not sure where to send this and apologize in 
advance for the off subject intrusion.

Our management received an FCC (yes FCC) advisory/warning that a terrible self 
activating "Good Times" E-mail virus is on loose, ravaging unsuspecting E-mail 
readers hard drives and damaging their CPUs by putting them in a loop. (sigh)  
They are in a panic. (big sigh)

I assured them that other than passing the Virus as a word Macro, postscript 
file or Ascii HEX dump, self activating E-mail viruses do not exist and they are 
safe reading email in Procomm or ZMail.  Now they want confirmation that my 
assurances are correct.  Would somebody more important than me confirm this or 
point me to somebody else who will.

thank you in advance.  (the laughs are a my payment for the interruption)
john


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