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> list <4AD-L@JHUVM.HCF.JHU.EDU> From: Robb Masters
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> Subject: AOL Virus Hoax (fwd)
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> I cannot verify the authenticity of the message below,
> but it looks cosher. Then again maybe it's THIS message
> that's the hoax!
>
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> >From arithmetic-owner@uclink.berkeley.edu Wed Dec 7
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> Date: Tue, 6 Dec 1994 18:09:52 -0800 (PST)
> From: Lilach Tene <lilac@cea.Berkeley.EDU>
> Subject: AOL Virus Hoax (fwd)
> To: arithmetic@uclink.berkeley.edu
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> Date: Tue, 6 Dec 1994 17:55:19 -0800
> From: Shannon Appel <appel@cea.Berkeley.EDU>
> To: allcea@cea.Berkeley.EDU, allsag@cea.Berkeley.EDU
> Subject: AOL Virus Hoax
>
> Here's some additional info on that AOL virus notice
> that was sent to these lists earlier. It was definitely
> a *HOAX*. Mail on the alledged AOL virus should not be
> passed on, and if you receive it, you might want to send
> the sender the information below.
>
> Shannon
>
> --
>
> 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@llnl.gov.
> $-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-
> $-$-$-$-$-$-$ $ Reference to any specific commercial
> product does not necessarily $ $ constitute or imply
> its endorsement, recommendation or favoring by $ $
> CIAC, the University of California, or the United States
> Government.$
> $-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-$-
> $-$-$-$-$-$-$
>
> 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@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@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.
>
> ------------------------------
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> ------------------------------
> End of CIAC Notes Number 94-04 94_12_06
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