virus warning

[David Magier]

> >> >>Some miscreant is sending e-mail under the title "good times" nation-wide.
> >> >>If you get anything like this, DON'T DOWNLOAD 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--I have.
> 
> This message has been forwarded to several lists I read (including INDOLOGY
> already I think). As far as I know there is no cross-platform virus in
> existence, and it would be slightly helpful to be told what kind of machine
> it affects.
> 
> Marcus Banks, Oxford
> 
> 
>  
> 

As has been officially announced in many other forums, the purported
'goodtimes' virus is a hoax and does not exist. Please do not
promulgate this chain-letter hoax by spreading the supposed warning any
further. 

David Magier
Columbia