Autor: Jerzy Pastusiak (pastupam_at_uoo.univ.szczecin.pl)
Data: Wed 07 Dec 1994 - 19:04:15 MET
Poniewaz kilku Szanownych Polipowcow zastanawialo sie nad "Good Times"
Virus'em przytaczam ponizszy list ktory zawiera jednoznaczna odpowiedz
na nurtujacy temat. Kazdy z nas byl sceptyczny, ale czasem splunac przez
lewe ramie nie zaszkodzi, byle nie wcelowac w JM Szefa.
Pozdrawiam ze Szczecina, J.P.
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> >> Date: Tue, 6 Dec 1994 15:23:09 -0800
> >> Message-Id: <199412062302.PAA23885_at_cheetah.llnl.gov>
> >> Reply-To: karyn_at_cheetah.llnl.gov
> >> Originator: ciac-notes_at_cheetah.llnl.gov
> >> Sender: ciac-notes_at_cheetah.llnl.gov
> >> From: Karyn Pichnarczyk <karyn_at_cheetah.llnl.gov>
> >> Subject: CIAC Notes 94-04
> >>
> >>
> >> U.S. DOE's Computer Incident Advisory Capability
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> >>
> >> Number 94-04 December 6, 1994
> >>
> >> ------------------- A - T - T - E - N - T - I - O - N -------------------
> >> | CIAC is available 24-hours a day via its two skypage numbers. To use |
> >> | this service, dial 1-800-759-7243. The PIN numbers are: 8550070 (for |
> >> | the CIAC duty person) and 8550074 (for the CIAC manager). Please keep |
> >> | these numbers handy. |
> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>
> >> Welcome to the fourth issue of CIAC Notes! This is a special edition to
> >> clear up recent reports of a "good times" virus-hoax. Let us know if you
> >> have topics you would like addressed or have feedback on what is useful and
> >> what is not. Please contact the editor, Allan L. Van Lehn, CIAC,
> >> 510-422-8193 or send E-mail to ciac_at_llnl.gov.
> >>
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> >> $ Reference to any specific commercial product does not necessarily $
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> >> $ CIAC, the University of California, or the United States Government.$
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> >>
> >> 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
> >> ciac_at_llnl.gov
> >>
> >>
> >> ------------------------------
> >> Contacting CIAC
> >>
> >> If you require additional assistance or wish to report a vulnerability, call
> >> CIAC at 510-422-8193, fax messages to 510-423-8002 or send E-mail to
> >> ciac_at_llnl.gov. For emergencies and off-hour assistance, call 1-800-SKY-PAGE
> >> (759-7243) and enter PIN number 8550070 (primary) or 8550074 (secondary).
> >> The CIAC Duty Officer, a rotating responsibility, carries the primary
> >> skypager. The Project Leader carries the secondary skypager. If you are
> >> unable to contact CIAC via phone, please use the skypage system.
> >>
> >> ------------------------------
> >> This document was prepared as an account of work sponsored by an agency of
> >> the United States Government. Neither the United States Government nor the
> >> University of California nor any of their employees, makes any warranty,
> >> express or implied, or assumes any legal liability or responsibility for the
> >> accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information, apparatus, product,
> >> or process disclosed, or represents that its use would not infringe privately
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> >> necessarily constitute or imply its endorsement, recommendation or favoring
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> >>
> >> ------------------------------
> >> End of CIAC Notes Number 94-04 94_12_06
> >> ****************************************
> >>
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