From: Bryan Reece <reece@taz.nceye.net>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 19:00:14 -0800 (PST)
To: vincent@psnw.com
Subject: Re: The virus I got...
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   Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 16:41:57 -0800
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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?

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.)