From: alano@teleport.com (Alan Olsen)
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 94 21:54:22 PST
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: (Fwd)      Read this, Virus info!!
Message-ID: <199412080554.VAA23477@desiree.teleport.com>
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>I have received two versions of this warning about "Good Times" 
>virus, this one from mail list Design-L and a similar one from 
>list Fiction-of-Philosophy.  Some forwarded headers have been 
>removed from this version.
>
>Has anyone on c'punks got further info or comment?

Yes.  It is a hoax.  (I will obtain the debunking message fron one of the
virus echos if needed...)  It was designed to prey on the gulibility of AOL
users.  (You cannot make a mail message that will virus your system just by
READING it.  AOL does not have support for nam-shubs.)

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