A non-hoax e-mail transmitted virus

[Bill Crosbie]

At 02:57 PM 5/25/97 -0500, you wrote:
>If you can provide authentication for this, please do so. I checked both
>the DOE's CIAC site and McAfee's site, and could find no mention of a
>virus called Sharefun. 
>

Dorothy,

First of all, thank you for the excellent reminder that you shouldn't post
such messages without verifying them.  Of course, looking at the URL posted
in my message, you will see such verification.  My only error may be that
the actual virus name is SHAREFUN.A

I am not some net newbie taken in by the Good Times hoax.  I am a network
administrator and know my way around the on-line world.  This threat is
_real_ according to McAfee.

>> 8<x-----------SNIPPITY SNIP----------------x
>> For an in depth look at ShareFun visit McAfee:
>> http://www.mcafee.com/support/techdocs/vinfo/v3333.html 
>> 
>> 
>> MCAFEE DISCOVERS SHAREFUN VIRUS; FIRST MACRO VIRUS TO AUTOMATICALLY EMAIL
>> ITSELF TO UNSUSPECTING VICTIMS
>> 

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