[Fwd: ATENTION !!!!!!!virus]

[worley at ariadne.com (Dale R. Worley)]

   A new, ultra-dangerous computer virus exists, which will permanently
   destroy your HARD DRIVE.  Do NOT -- repeat -- do NOT download and do not
   even READ anything if the "Subject" or "Re" lines include the word "Good"
   -- specifically: "Good News" or "Good Times."

Yeah, this is the famous "Good Times" virus warning.  It's been going
around for a couple of years now, much like the "Craig Shergold"
message.  There is no such virus e-mail message.

(Note the technical unlikelihood of such a virus -- you don't *execute*
your e-mail, how could it adversely affect your hard drive?  For that
matter, how does one *permanently* destroy a hard drive from software?
What could software possibly do that a full reformatting couldn't
correct?)

But there *is* a virus -- the "Good Times" virus warning itself.  It
induces panic in human readers, causing them to propagate copies of
itself.

Dale
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