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1996-12-18 - Re: The virus I got…

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From: Psionic Damage <zerofaith@mail.geocities.com>
To: Bryan Reece <reece@taz.nceye.net>
Message Hash: d79be5ab28c0fe00a967e15409be3e6b0f1556e9d3059a5a0f9fbee19f123303
Message ID: <199612180559.VAA06903@geocities.com>
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UTC Datetime: 1996-12-18 05:59:19 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 21:59:19 -0800 (PST)

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From: Psionic Damage <zerofaith@mail.geocities.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 21:59:19 -0800 (PST)
To: Bryan Reece <reece@taz.nceye.net>
Subject: Re: The virus I got...
Message-ID: <199612180559.VAA06903@geocities.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain



How come not everyone got it, did it depend on the x-mailer you are using?


At 02:59 AM 12/18/96 -0000, you wrote:
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><A HREF="http://www.geocities.com">Postage paid by: <IMG
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>   Delivered-To: reece-cpunks@taz.nceye.net
>   Delivered-To: reece@taz.nceye.net
>   From: "Vincent Padua" <vincent@psnw.com>
>   Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 16:41:57 -0800
>   X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
>   X-Priority: 3
>   X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1155
>   MIME-Version: 1.0
>   Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>   Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>   Sender: owner-cypherpunks@toad.com
>   Precedence: bulk
>
>   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.)
>
>----------geoboundary--
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