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From: mattias@roxx.se (MIME) at internet
Date: 10/15/96 9:09AM
To: Sami Sinerva
Subject: E-mailvirus!
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Received this from a friend...
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Oh dear
> Hello, everyone! This message is extremely important. It is about a
Good Times is a long standing hoax - how embarassing to be caught by it
;-))
Tim
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BULLSHIT! This is a Hoax! The *virus* *IS* this message... This message has
been Floating around for at least two years if not more.
If I had a Dollar for every time someone warned me about this I would prolly
have a new car by now.
The only thing that makes this a virus is that this message
WILL NOT DIE!
Please do NOT propagate this Message
Date sent: 17-OCT-1996 08:48:59
> The bottom line is: - if you receive a file with the subject line
Bollocks.
Don't worry folks, it's a fake. Same as it was a couple of months ago, and a
few months before that, and a few months before that and.....
Be warned though that with the advent of 'intelligent' mailers, and with
the potential for Macro viruses, such an innocuous E-mail virus may well
be in development. Rest assured however that text based mail systems will
always be safe, and the virus will not be called 'Good Times'.
It is already practical, in theory at least, to include a virus on a Web Page.
> Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 08:58:28 +0100
> Date sent: 17-OCT-1996 08:48:59
> It is already practical, in theory at least, to include a virus on a
Like the hostile Java applets? (ie. Black Widows)
> At 02:15 PM 10/16/96 EDT, you wrote:
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> Received this from a friend...
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Good God, don't tell me that people are STILL being hosed in by this "Good
Times" virus? The only thing virulent about this virus is the way that it
spreads through e-mail.