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WARNING!!!!!!! INTERNET VIRUS



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The FCC released a warning last Wednesday concerning a matter of

major

importance to any regular user of the Internet. Apparently a new

computer

virus has been engineered by a user of AMERICA ON LINE that is

unparalleled

in its destructive capability. Other more well-known viruses such as

"Stoned", "Airwolf" and "Michaelangelo" pale in comparison to the

prospects

of this newest creation by a warped mentality. What makes this virus

so

terrifying, said the FCC, is the fact that no program needs to be

exchanged

for a new computer to be infected. It can be spread through the

existing

e-mail systems of the Internet. Once a Computer is infected, one of

several

things can happen. If the computer contains a hard drive, that will

most

likely be destroyed. If the program is not stopped, the computer's

rocessor

will be placed in an nth-complexity infinite binary loop -which can

severely

damage the processor if left running that way too long.

Unfortunately, most novice computer users will not realize what

is

happening until it is far too late. Luckily, there is one sure means

of

detecting what is now known as the "Good Times" virus. It always

travels to

new computers the same way in a text e-mail message with the subject

line

reading "Good Times". Avoiding infection is easy once the file has

been

received simply by NOT READING IT! The act of loading the file into

the mail

server's ASCII buffer causes the "Good Times" mainline program to

initialize

and execute. The program is highly intelligent- it will send copies

of

Itself to everyone whose e-mail address is contained in a

receive-mail file or a

sent-mail file, if it can find one. It will then proceed to trash the

computer it is running on. The bottom line there is - if you receive

a file

with the subject line "Good Times", delete it immediately! Do not

read it"

Rest assured that whoever's name was on the "From" line was surely

struck

by the virus. Warn your friends and local system users of this newest

threat to

the Internet! It could save them a lot of time and money.



Donald F. Hoyt, PhD

Professor of Biological Sciences

California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

3801 W. Temple Avenue

Pomona, CA 91768

Office Phone: 909-869-4050

FAX: 909-869-4078