I can't believe anyone still falls for this old canard, probably the same people who write the FCC about the modem tax :) FYU Erich, Good Times was a hoax, there never was and never will be such a creature. On Thu, 20 Apr 1995, Erich W. Gunther wrote: > 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. Gunther > Director of Technology Development > Electrotek Concepts, Inc. > erich@electrotek.com >