Virus Warning

[Josiah Slack]

By my calendar, it's several weeks short of April 1.  And why else would
anyone be sending mail about the "Good Times" virus?

At 09:07 AM 3/19/96 -0500, you wrote:
>       I just got this from my inter office e-mail. Thought it might by of
>interest to fellow Pynchon-dedicated Netizens.
>
>   WARNING!!!!!!!  INTERNET VIRUS >
>
>         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- not reading it!    The act of loading
>the file into the mail server's ASCII buffer causes the "Good    Times"
>mainline program to initialize and execute.
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Josiah Slack                    Phone:  (617) 864-5524 ext. 221
Spyglass  Incorporated          FAX:    (617) 864-4965
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