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You all should read this warning, sorry it's not rocco related(fwd)

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Hi....It's Me FreeDom.......Read This Please......

VIRUS WARNING!!!!
There is a computer virus that is being sent across the Internet. If you   
receive an email message with the subject line "Good  Times", DO NOT read   
the message, DELETE it immediately.  Please read the messages below.

Some miscreant is sending  email under the title "Good Times" nationwide,   
if you get anything like this, DON'T DOWN LOAD THE FILE! It has a virus   
that rewrites your hard drive, obliterating anything on it. Please be   
careful and forward this mail to anyone you care about.

The FCC released a warning last Wednesday concerning a matter of major   
importance to any regular user  of the Internet. Apparently a new   
computer virus has been engineered by a user of AMERICA ON LINE that is   
unparalleled in its destructive capability. Other more well-known viruses   
such as "Stoned", "Airwolf" and "Michaelangelo" pale in comparison to the   
prospects of this newest creation by a warped mentality. What makes this   
virus so terrifying, said the FCC, is the fact that no program needs to   
be exchanged for a new computer to be infected. It can be spread through   
the existing email systems of the Internet.

Once a Computer is infected, one of  several things can  happen. If the   
computer contains a hard drive, that  will most likely be destroyed. 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.

Unfortunately, most novice computer users will not realize what is   
happening until it is far too late. Luckily, there is one sure means of   
detecting what is now known as the "Good Times" virus. It always travels   
to new computers the same way in a text email message with the subject   
line reading "Good Times". Avoiding infection is easy once the file has   
been received simply by NOT READING IT! The act of loading the file into   
the mail server's ASCII buffer causes the "Good Times" mainline program   
toinitialize and execute.

The program is highly intelligent- it will  send copies of itself to   
everyone whose email address is contained in a receive-mail file or a   
sent-mail file, if it can find one. It will then proceed to trash the   
computer it is running on.

The bottom line is:  - if you receive a file with the subject line "Good   
Times", delete it  immediately! Do not read it"  Rest assured that   
whoever' name was on the  "From" line was surely struck by the virus.   
Warn your  friends and  local system users of this newest threat to the   
Internet! It could save them a lot of time and money.

Could you pass this along to your global mailing list as well?

2 Subject:  New and Dangerous Virus For your information

DO NOT DOWNLOAD ANY FILE NAMED PKZIP300 REGARDLESS OF THE EXTENSION

We work closely with the military and received this message from a very   
reliable source in DC this morning.

A NEW Trojan Horse Virus has emerged on the internet with the name   
PKZIP300.ZIP, so named as to give the impression that this file is a new   
version of the PKZIP software used to "ZIP" (compress) files.

DO NOT DOWNLOAD this file under any circumstances!!! If you install or   
expand this file, the virus WILL wipe your hard disk clean and affect   
modems at 14.4 and higher. This is an extremely destructive virus and   
there is NOT  yet a way of cleaning up this one.

REPEAT: DO NOT DOWNLOAD ANY FILE NAMED PKZIP300 REGARDLESS OF THE   
EXTENSION.
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