Warning,

[Brian Wilkins]

        This was sent to me by a reliable friend, some of you may have
already received this warning, but better safe than sorry.

        Brian

Subject: New computer virus

Beware of a computer virus that is being sent across the internet.  If you
receive an e-mail message with the subject line "Good Times."  DO NOT OPEN
IT, DO NOT READ IT, but DELETE IT IMMEDIATELY, no matter who it says the
sender is.  It rewrites your hard drive, totally destroying anything on it.
 Tell anyone you know who might be affected by this, anyone who is using the
internet at work or home.

The FCC released a warning last Wednesday concerning a matter of major
importance to any regular user to the Internet.  Apparently a new computer
virus has been engineered by a user of America Online that is unparalleled in
its destructive capability.  Other more well-know 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 thing
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 to 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 -- 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 here 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
          Brian Wilkins              Tampa, FL