Virus Alert

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Wanted to pass the following warning to ya'll.  Our MIS
dept. here at Focus wanted us to pass the word along to
anyone who could be affected (and infected).

WARNING!
     
     Virus Alert ....
     
	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.
	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 is:  - if you receive a file with the
subject line "Good Times", delete it  immediately! Do not
read it"  Rest assured that whoever' 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.