John sez...
> 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.
Suggest you immediately contact:
Bob Bales
National Computer Security Association
74774 .
1326 @
compuserve .
com
(717) 258-1816
NCSA and their flock track this stuff very closely, and if anyone
would know it is they.
rmck
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