From jwest@eskimo.com Wed Dec 18 11:10:10 1996 Delivered-To: reece@taz.nceye.net Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 03:10:43 -0800 From: John H West <jwest@eskimo.com> X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (Win16; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cypherpunks@toad.com, Bryan Reece <reece@taz.nceye.net>, Vincent Padua <vincent@psnw.com> Subject: Re: The virus I got... References: <19961218025949.23374.qmail@taz.nceye.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Seen it. Guess I should have either ended the GOOD TIMES sentence with `!!@!@##$!#$' or appended a `:)' or something. b `Jokes taken seriously' r