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    Hoax.
    
    								-mr. bill

    
    And another 'boxer joins the ranks of inhumanity.
    
    								-mr. bill

    
    
    Gee Jeff!!!! You inhuman dolt you!!!

Forms,  Stoned,  AIDS,  Friday13,  many assorted others.  Some just annoy,  
others can trash your disks.  All of your disks.

Best prevention is a real OS with file system security,  along with regular
virus scans.

Second best prevention is regular virus scans with the latest in scan
programs.


Phil

RE: 158.3 by PERFOM::LICEA_KANE "when it's comin' from the left"

> And another 'boxer joins the ranks of inhumanity.

There is a PC virus called AIDS,  probably because it puts that on your
display while it is busy erasing your disk(s).

Give Jeff the benefit of the doubt.  Until he proves otherwise.


Phil

    
    he was just practicing.

RE: 158.7 by USAT05::BENSON

> virus notes make strange bedfellows

Maybe,  or maybe not.

When I see "AIDS" under the topic PC Virus,  I think of a "Trojan house
virus 13312 bytes long that infects .COM files.  Side effects include 
corrupted program and overlay files,  changes to system run time operations,  
reformatting or overwriting parts of the hard disk,  and unrecoverable 
damage to infected files".

Related virus are the "Ha Ha Ha" and "Taunt".

Now,  Jeff,  is that what you were talking about?


Phil

You just bought a PC,  right,  Jeff?

    
    i did indeed, your honor, but that doesn't mean i was responsible for
    the killing.
    
    jeff

Ok,  Jeff,  so do you know how to practice Safe Computing?

Or is your PC going to get AIDS?  (or Forms,  or Bad Boy,  ...)


Phil

    >>>Ok,  Jeff,  so do you know how to practice Safe Computing?
    
    
    well, they do make rubbers for your fingers!!
    
    :>:>
    
    
    

    
    let me see...i'll have no illicit, unprotected network conjugals and
    i'll rub my floppies down in nonoxynol.
    
    actually, i did get a virus-checker routine with my PC but haven't
    looked to see what it looks for.
    
    jeff

RE: 158.15 by USAT05::BENSON

> let me see...i'll have no illicit, unprotected network conjugals 

No CompuServe,  AOL,  Internet or BBS for Jeff.  


> and i'll rub my floppies down in nonoxynol.

That ought to make them unreadable,  and trash your floppy drive at the
same time.  Explain that to field service,  they will howl!


> actually, i did get a virus-checker routine with my PC but haven't
> looked to see what it looks for.

Just like a condom,  if you don't use it,  it will not protect you.


Phil

From:	US3RMC::"[email protected]" "Patrick Douglas Crispen"  7-DEC-1994 17:30:28.59
To:	Multiple recipients of list ROADMAP <[email protected]>
CC:	
Subj:	MAP-EXTRA: INTERNET MAIL "VIRUS" A HOAX - OFFICIAL WORD

Hi kids:

I know that I have been stuffing your mailbox with a whole bunch of mail
recently, but I thought that the following may be of some interest to you
-- I know it gave me a good laugh :)

It seems that the latest Urban Legend floating around the Internet is that
there is a virus called "Good Times" that is transmitted via e-mail and eats
hard drives. <<laugh>>

Anyway, here is the *TRUTH* about the Good Times virus in case one of your
friends tries to spam you with warnings about it:


------------------- A - T - T - E - N - T - I - O - N -------------------

THE "Good Times" VIRUS IS AN URBAN LEGEND

In the early part of December, CIAC started to receive information requests
about a supposed "virus" which could be contracted via America OnLine, simply
by reading a message.  The following is the message that CIAC received:

 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Here is some important information. Beware of a file called Goodtimes.    |
|                                                                           |
|  Happy Chanukah everyone, and be careful out there. There is a virus on   |
| America Online being sent by E-Mail.  If you get anything called "Good    |
| Times", DON'T read it or download it.  It is a virus that will erase your |
| hard drive.  Forward this to all your friends.  It may help them a lot.   |
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

THIS IS A HOAX.  Upon investigation, CIAC has determined that this message
originated from both a user of America Online and a student at a university
at approximately the same time, and it was meant to be a hoax.

CIAC has also seen other variations of this hoax, the main one is that any
electronic mail message with the subject line of "xxx-1" will infect your
computer.

This rumor has been spreading very widely.  This spread is due mainly to the
fact that many people have seen a message with "Good Times" in the header.

They delete the message without reading it, thus believing that they have
saved themselves from being attacked. These first-hand reports give a false
sense of credibility to the alert message.

There has been one confirmation of a person who received a message with
"xxx-1" in the header, but an empty message body.  Then, (in a panic, because
he had heard the alert), he checked his PC for viruses (the first time he
checked his machine in months) and found a pre-existing virus on his machine.
 He incorrectly came to the conclusion that the E-mail message gave him the
virus (this particular virus could NOT POSSIBLY have spread via an E-mail
message).  This person then spread his alert.

As of this date, there are no known viruses which can infect merely through
reading a mail message.  For a virus to spread some program must be executed.
Reading a mail message does not execute the mail message.  Yes, Trojans have
been found as executable attachments to mail messages, the most notorious
being the IBM VM Christmas Card Trojan of 1987, also the TERM MODULE Worm
(reference CIAC Bulletin B-7) and the GAME2 MODULE Worm (CIAC Bulletin B-12).
 But this is not the case for this particular "virus" alert.

If you encounter this message being distributed on any mailing lists, simply
ignore it or send a follow-up message stating that this is a false rumor.

Karyn Pichnarczyk
CIAC Team
[email protected]

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    .18
    
    thank you.  .17 is history.

    
    A man was arrested in a national park after being
    found in possesion of a condor.
    
    Arrested and tried, he confessed that it was hunger that
    drove him to kill the bird. 
    
    Moved, the judge allows the charges to be dropped but then
    asks "Just out of curiousity, what exactly does condor taste like?"
    
    The man answers "Kind of between spotted owl and bald eagle".

    always knew Phil Hays was the kind of guy that said "Let the Good Times
    roll!"