Good Times (Virus Alert Hoax)

[Coley, B.A. (Brett)]

Richard Romeo wrote:

  I've been told of a virus spreading via e-mail which has the word Happy
  in subject or something to that effect.  If you view message your hard
  drive will be wiped clean and the CPU will be given a rather complicated
  mathematical request which will burn that out as well.  I hear this is
  legit so  delete the message is what I hear to save yourself.  Beware...

It is a hoax.  The only virus is the "Good Times Warning".  It has
infected us all, now.  After all, if you run a looping program,
the CPU does not catch on fire...
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Brett
bcoley at vnet.ibm.com