Sitaramayya Ari.
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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
email 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 processor 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 email
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 email 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.