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Subject:Re: New virus by email - vicious one From:Keith Soltys <ksoltys -at- IO -dot- ORG> Date:Fri, 3 Nov 1995 12:46:30 -0500
In article <199511030422 -dot- XAA07646 -at- io -dot- org>, you wrote:
>Eric, I think this affects us all. Most of us don't hang around any virus
>Lists
>or newsgroups.
>I just received an urgent virus alert from my company, a vicious one that
>propagates by email. That means US!
>Text follows.
>***********************************************
>Please do not read any mail messages with the subject
>"Good Times" it may contain a virus. Just delete the message.
>Details:
Not another one!
This one is almost as bad as the Blue Star acid tattoo hoax (which just hit
my son's school).
Or go into Yahoo or OpenText and do a search on "Good Times Virus".
Please check it out. As technical writers, we have a responsibility to
disseminate accurate information.
Regards,
Keith
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Keith Soltys -- ksoltys -at- io -dot- org -- http://www.io.org/~ksoltys/
Technical Writer, Technical Development, Dow Jones Telerate Canada Inc.
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