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There was an e-mail sent to the list that had attached to it a virus. Well lucky me I got. It was a .com file that apparently turns your files into directories. I can't boot into Win95 since it turned my HIMEM.SYS into a directory. So, I seem to have fixed that, but now it says "access denied" and then prompts me with C:\>. Did anyone else get it? Has anyone heard or fixed this virus? Thanks //Vince
Delivered-To: reece-cpunks@taz.nceye.net Delivered-To: reece@taz.nceye.net From: "Vincent Padua" <vincent@psnw.com> Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 16:41:57 -0800 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1155 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cypherpunks@toad.com Precedence: bulk There was an e-mail sent to the list that had attached to it a virus. Well lucky me I got. It was a .com file that apparently turns your files into directories. I can't boot into Win95 since it turned my HIMEM.SYS into a directory. So, I seem to have fixed that, but now it says "access denied" and then prompts me with C:\>. Did anyone else get it? Has anyone heard or fixed this virus? Yes. It's a deadly mutation of the GOOD TIMES virus. (People actually go to the trouble of stripping off the leading crap from the uuencoded part and then *run a program* from someone called Fuck@yourself.up? Furrfu.)
Bryan Reece wrote:
>
> There was an e-mail sent to the list that had attached to it a virus. Well
> lucky me I got. It was a .com file that apparently turns your files into
> directories. I can't boot into Win95 since it turned my HIMEM.SYS into a
> directory. So, I seem to have fixed that, but now it says "access denied"
> and then prompts me with C:\>. Did anyone else get it? Has anyone heard
> or fixed this virus?
>
> Yes. It's a deadly mutation of the GOOD TIMES virus.
>
> (People actually go to the trouble of stripping off the leading crap
> from the uuencoded part and then *run a program* from someone called
> Fuck@yourself.up? Furrfu.)
from CIAC,
http://www-gsb.uchicago.edu/comp_svcs/hoax.html
>From ciac-bulletin@cheetah.llnl.gov Wed Nov 20 22:14:26 1996
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 20:12:41 -0800 (PST)
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Subject: CIAC Bulletin H-05: Internet Hoaxes
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The U.S. Department of Energy
Computer Incident Advisory Capability
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INFORMATION BULLETIN
Internet Hoaxes: PKZ300, Irina, Good Times, Deeyenda, Ghost
November 20, 1996 15:00 GMT
Number H-05
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PROBLEM: This bulletin addresses the following hoaxes and
erroneous
warnings: PKZ300 Warning, Irina, Good Times, Deeyenda,
and
Ghost.exe
PLATFORM: All, via e-mail
DAMAGE: Time lost reading and responding to the messages
SOLUTION: Pass unvalidated warnings only to your computer security
department or incident response team. See below on how to
recognize validated and unvalidated warnings and hoaxes.
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VULNERABILITY New hoaxes and warnings have appeared on the Internet and
old
ASSESSMENT: hoaxes are still being cirulated.
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Good Times Virus Hoax
=====================
The "Good Times" virus warnings are a hoax. There is no virus by that
name in
existence today. These warnings have been circulating the Internet for
years.
The user community must become aware that it is unlikely that a virus
can be
constructed to behave in the manner ascribed in the "Good Times" virus
warning. For more information related to this urban legend, reference
CIAC
Notes 95-09.
http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/notes/Notes09.shtml
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johnVincent Padua wrote: > > There was an e-mail sent to the list that had attached to it a virus. > Well lucky me I got. It was a .com file that apparently turns your > files into May I ask what on earth possessed you to run on a non-expendable machine a .COM attached to email sent by a spammer who obviously didn't even have business-related intentions? -- Vangelis <vangelis@qnis.net> /\oo/\ Finger for public key. PGP KeyID 1024/A558B025 PGP Fingerprint AE E0 BE 68 EE 7B CF 04 02 97 02 86 F0 C7 69 25 Life is my religion, the world is my altar.