Internet Virus

From one of the newsgroups that I usually read, I received this Hope can help . } }Please be careful and forward this mail to anyone you care about. } } ******* Information on Virus 1 } } WARNING!!!!!!! INTERNET VIRUS } }The FCC released a warning last Wednesday concerning a matter of major }importance to any regular user of the Internet. Apparently a new computer }virus has been engineered by a user of AMERICA ON LINE that is }unparalleled in its destructive capability. } }What makes this virus so terrifying is the fact that no program needs to be }exchanged for a new computer to be infected. It can be spread through the }existing email systems of the Internet. } }Once a Computer is infected, one of several things can happen. If the }computer contains a hard drive, that will most likely be destroyed. If the } program is not stopped, the computer's processor will be placed in an }nth-complexity infinite binary loop -which can severely damage the processor }if left running that way too long. } }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 email message with the subject line reading "Good Times". Avoiding }infection is easy once the file has been received simply by NOT READING IT! } }The act of loading the file into the mail server'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 email address is contained in a }receive-mail file or a sent-mail file, if it can find one. } }It will then proceed to trash the computer it is running on. The bottom }line there is - if you receive a file with the subject line "Good Times", }delete it immediately! Do not read it" Rest assured that whoever's name was }on the"From" line was surely struck by the virus. } }Could you pass this along to your global mailing list as well? } }George H. Bowers }Vice President for Information Systems University of Maryland MedicalSystem }410-328-2579 (fax)410-328-0572 gbowers@umms_itg.ab.umd.edu } } } } ******* Information on Virus 2 } }Subject: FW: New and Dangerous Viruspp For your information ... } }DO NOT DOWNLOAD ANY FILE NAMED PKZIP300 REGARDLESS OF THE EXTENSION } }A NEW Trojan Horse Virus has emerged on the internet with the name }PKZIP300.ZIP, so named as to give the impression that this file is a new }version of the PKZIP software used to "ZIP" (compress) files. } }DO NOT DOWNLOAD this file under any circumstances!!! If you install or }expand this file, the virus WILL wipe your hard disk clean and affect modems }at 14.4 and higher. This is an extremely destructive virus and there is NOT }yet a way of cleaning up this one. } }REPEAT: DO NOT DOWNLOAD ANY FILE NAMED PKZIP300 REGARDLESS OF THE EXTENSION }>------- End of Forwarded Message } } P.S. Sorry if this is a repost P.P.S Sorry for my not good english. Pierluigi "PIGI" Frullani Frumar srl pigi@frumar.it