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The hoax ended up becoming a great irony. It was reported to be especially dangerous because it spread via email. The infecting message would have a subject line of "Good Times", and opening it was sufficient to infect one's machine. The notion was immediately rejected as absurd by techincal people, because at the time most mailreaders only dealt with plaintext messages. Just a few years later, with the advent of Microsoft's pathetically insecure email client "Outlook" (along with several other vulnerable programs), the Good Times warning wouldn't have seemed at all odd along the real warnings about email viruses such as "ILOVEYOU" and "Melissa". |
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The hoax ended up becoming a great irony. It was reported to be especially dangerous because it spread via email. The infecting message would have a subject line of "Good Times", and opening it was sufficient to infect one's machine. The notion was immediately rejected as absurd by techincal people, because at the time most mailreaders only dealt with plaintext messages. Just a few years later, with the advent of Microsoft's insecure email client "Outlook" (along with several other vulnerable programs), the Good Times warning wouldn't have seemed at all odd along the real warnings about email viruses such as "ILOVEYOU" and "Melissa". But even now no virus can put your computer into an "Nth complexity loop". |
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One person apparently had become fed up with these warnings, and sent out the text below. |
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One person apparently had become fed up with these hoax warnings, and sent out the text below. |
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It cannot do anything to you. But I can. I am sending this message to everyone in the world. Tell your friends, tell your family. If anyone else sends me another E-mail about this fake Goodtimes Virus, I will turn hating them into a religion. I will do things to them that would make a horsehead in your bed look like Easter Sunday brunch. |
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It cannot do anything to you. But I can. I am sending this message to everyone in the world. Tell your friends, tell your family. If anyone else sends me another E-mail about this fake Goodtimes Virus, I will turn hating them into a religion. I will do things to them that would make a horsehead in your bed look like Easter Sunday brunch. |
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