Date: Fri, 21 Apr 1995 10:06:09 -0500
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
From: cburke AT mitre DOT org (Carl D. Burke)
Subject: Re: Internet Virus Alert

>>
>> >>>>> "Bill" == Bill Currie <BILLC AT teleng1 DOT tait DOT co DOT nz> writes:
>>
>> >>If the program is not stopped, the computer's processor will be placed in
>> >>an nth-complexity infinite binary loop - which can severely damage the
>> >>processor if left running that way too long.
>>
>> Gee, THAT doesn't sound like a flamingly obvious hoax or anything.
>> Ah, how quickly people forget that April 1 wasn't long ago... :-)
>>

What's amazing is that this isn't the first time "Good Times" has showed up --
it's been debunked for years, but people are still responding as if it's a
real threat.  True net.life, spread by the unvaccinated.  From the quoted
paragraph above, it looks like it's rising to urban legend status; the use
of excessive detail as an attempt to convince the rubes.  Put it in the same
box as "Send business cards to dying boy XXX" -- the trash.

--
"I am the Lone Locust of the Apocalypse.  Think of me when you look to
the night sky." -- Zorak, SGC2C

Carl Burke