------ =_NextPart_000_01BA119A.12F08BA0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit After learning that the virus was a hoax, I tried to reply to those who informed me on an individual basis so as not to tie up this list, but due to the large number of continuing replies, I must reply here also. Thanks for the information to all who replied and for the restraint shown in your messages. I am suitably humbled for getting burned by this one. I don't know how I missed it. My collegues have been suitably informed as well. Erich W. Gunther ---------- From: Erich W. Gunther Sent: Thursday, April 20, 1995 3:03 PM To: bugtraq@fc.net Subject: virus I received an e-mail from a collegue regarding a new virus propogated by e-mail called the "Good Times" virus. The e-mail was not very specific as to the how the virus does its damage or what security holes it exploits to do its thing. Has anybody else heard of it and have any additional information? Here is a excerpt from the e-mail I received: > 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 simply "Good Times." > > Avoiding infection is easy once the file has been recieved--not reading it. > The act of loading the file into the mail servers'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 received-mail file or sent-mail file. If it can > find one. It will then proceed to trash the computer it is running on. Erich W. 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