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Re: The virus I got...

	From [email protected] Wed Dec 18 11:10:10 1996
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	Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 03:10:43 -0800
	From: John H West <[email protected]>
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	To: [email protected], Bryan Reece <[email protected]>,
	        Vincent Padua <[email protected]>
	Subject: Re: The virus I got...
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	Bryan Reece wrote:
	> 

	>    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
	> [email protected]? Furrfu.)

	from CIAC,

	   http://www-gsb.uchicago.edu/comp_svcs/hoax.html

Seen it.  Guess I should have either ended the GOOD TIMES sentence
with `!!@!@##$!#$' or appended a `:)' or something.  

b `Jokes taken seriously' r