From owner-diagnostics@net.bio.net Sun Apr 23 23:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!UNIXG.UBC.CA!lingqin From: lingqin@UNIXG.UBC.CA (Xiang Li) Newsgroups: bionet.diagnostics Subject: Forward: The virus message was a hoax! (fwd) Date: 24 Apr 1995 09:20:10 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 69 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Hi, there. I read the same message sent by Ryan Wheat before from another friend. I had also received the following message afterward. Just for your information. Good luck. Xiang Li Agriculture Canada, Pacific Agriculture Research Centre--Vancouver ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 20 Apr 1995 20:05:07 PST From: James J. Pan To: zhong_hua@cs.ubc.ca Cc: jjpan@erich.triumf.ca Subject: The virus message was a hoax! (fwd) Sorry for the false alarm. jp > Date: 19 Apr 95 11:11 -0700 > From: William Lee > To: Branko Peric > Cc: net-admins@ubc.ca > Subject: Re: (Fwd) WARNING!! > > On Wed, 19 Apr 1995, Branko Peric wrote: > > > You-All heard about this? > > > > ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- > > > > >> FWD>F.Y.I. New Computer Virus > > >> > > >> There is a computer virus that is being sent across the Internet. If you > > >> receive an e-mail message with the subject line "Good Times", DO NOT read > > >> the message, DELETE it immediately. Please read the messages below. > > [a pile of nonsense deleted] > > This is a hoax. There was something similar a couple of months back. I > can dig up the CERT (or somebody like that's) rebuttal if anyone is > interested. > > Some key [ridiculous] claims: > > 1) the 'FCC' won't care about viruses > 2) you can't 'destroy' a modern hard drive with a virus, perhaps the data, > but not the hard drive > 3) no n-th complex binary loop or whatever he said can destroy a processor > > > **Now this is not to say that you can't get a virus via email. Someone can > send you an infected executable that when downloaded and run can infect > your hard drive. But simply 'reading' a message won't infect anything. > > William. > > ---- > William Lee, Manager, Systems Consulting Group > Microcomputer, Unix Systems and Network Consulting > Network Systems Support, Telecommunications Services > Computing and Communications, University of British Columbia > 6356 Agricultural Road, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2 Canada. email: lee@ucs.ubc.ca > --- James J. Pan JJPAN@triumf.ca (604)222-1047 UBC & TRIUMF JJPAN@unixg.ubc.ca (604)822-8243 Vancouver, BC CANADA V6T 1A3 .