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Subject: Re: Self activating E-mail viruses? ie, please tell me where to go :)
From: woods @ ncar . ucar . edu (Greg Woods)
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 95 9:03:14 MDT
To: JOHN @ lincc . ccla . lib . fl . us
Cc: firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <950419084628 . 60414035 @ lincc . ccla . lib . fl . us>; from "JOHN @ lincc . ccla . lib . fl . us" at Apr 19, 95 8:46 am

> Our management received an FCC (yes FCC) advisory/warning that a terrible self 
> activating "Good Times" E-mail virus is on loose

Oh no, not *AGAIN*. This is getting to be as bad as the Craig Shergold thing.

The "Good Times" e-mail virus was shown to be a hoax, and an old one at
that (this came out several months ago at least).

While it is theoretically possible to send an e-mail message which when
read by users with certain types of terminals or certain mail reading
programs will do nasty things, there has not (to my knowledge) ever been
a documented instance of this being done on a netwide basis.

--Greg


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