Hay & Company Consultants (hayco@MINDLINK.BC.CA)
Thu, 27 Apr 1995 09:49:00 PDT
Message-ID: <m0s4Wku-00034sC@deep.rsoft.bc.ca>
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1995 09:49:00 PDT
From: Hay & Company Consultants <hayco@MINDLINK.BC.CA>
Subject: e-mail computer virus warning
To: Multiple recipients of list CIVIL-L <CIVIL-L@unb.ca>
There is 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
READ the message. DELETE it immediatly. Apparently this virus is very
intelligent. It is activated when the "Good Times" message is read. From
there it may reformat you hard drive and then send your computers processor
into an nth-complexity infinate binary loop which can severely damage the
processor if it is left running that way too long. One other thing it is
capable of is sending copies of itself to everyone whose e-mail address is
contained in a received-mail file or a send mail file, if it can find one.
Luckily, this virus always travels to new computer the same way - in a text
e-mail message with the subject line reading "good times." The FCC has
released a warning regarding this virus.
Chris Brandt
Hay & Company Consultants Inc.
Vancouver, BC