In article <3c4alu$iru at lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> tjrc1 at mole.bio.cam.ac.uk (Tim Cutts) writes:
>From: tjrc1 at mole.bio.cam.ac.uk (Tim Cutts)
>Subject: Re: !!!!Warning: a virus is emailed (fwd)
>Date: 7 Dec 1994 12:43:42 GMT
>Dietmar Tietz <Dietmar.Tietz at agrar.uni-giessen.de> writes:
>>>>>> A virus is circulating on the Internet. If you receive a message with
>>> the header "xxx-1" DO NOT READ IT. Delete immediately or your disk will
>>> require treatment by a virus-scanner. I have had two copies of this
>>> message this morning (Sunday) already, but was warned by an early
>>> morning phone call from a friend who got hit.
>>>>>>************************************************************************
>>>>This crossed my virtual desk this afternoon. Does anyone have more info?
>>>>>>>>>>> Somebody is sending e-mail under the title "good times". If you get
>>>>>>anything
>>>>>>> like this, DON'T DOWNLOAD THE FILE! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! It has a
>>>virus that
>>>>>>> rewrites your hard drive, and you lose anything on your hard
>>>drive. Pleas
>>>e
>>>>>>> be careful and forward this mail to anyone you care about!
>Please could we not have such scare stories? Such a virus is indeed a
>worry, but there's no point in panicking everyone. Who dies the virus
>affact? PC users? Mac users? Unix users? I find it very hard to
>believe that there is any sort of virus that will affect any system
>regardless of operating system/mail handler used. Please be more
>specific.
>Tim.
No need to panic! This is a hoax
