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Subject: Self activating E-mail viruses? ie, please tell me where to go :) (fwd)
From: atkinsr @ glock . wtc . nec . gmeds . com (Rusty Atkins L.)
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 09:56:55 -0400 (EDT)
To: firewalls @ greatcircle . com
Reply-to: atkinsr%glock @ glock . ews

Forwarded message:
> 
> 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)
> 


 This is getting as bad as the modem tax and the boy with (brain?) cancer...
please send him a card, won't you? :) 

> 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.
> 

 They are safe reading mail, as long as it is their own. :) Please post this
somewhere in the office and save about 100 duplicate questions. 

 This whole good times thing was started by someone on (If I remember correctly)
AOL. It started many copy-cat messages, and for a few days, there were 
many, many people, and a lot of businesses that were afraid to receive mail...
 Text does not hurt.. unless it is done with really heavy letters and you 
drop one on your foot.

  ... this message will self-destruct in 10 seconds ...


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