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Ignore the Good Times

It is back and it is a still a hoax (we hope). The Internet virus newsgroup is brimming with questions from people new to the Net asking if the Good Times virus is real. They have seen a warning that an e-mail message titled "Good Times" is circulating - and that anyone who opens the mail will find their hard disk wiped out. The warning is a hoax - though it is itself a form of virus because it resurfaces all over the Internet every few months.

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Now read on

New web pages: Apple Expo, 8-11 November at Olympia, London, has its own Web site at http://www.apple-expo. com/apple/, which allows you to pre-register for free entry.

A set of interactive World Wide Web pages has been developed at the Science Museum in London to allow people to learn about genetics. It is in the form of a "consensus debate", in which users are asked to make decisions about what they think are acceptable uses for this new form of technology. The address is: http://www. scicomm.org.uk/biosis/human/consent.html.

Steinkrug Publications has created an interactive short story on the Web. "LX" is the story is of four people ... etc, etc. See it at http://www.gold.net/ flames/.

New high-brow Web site: Wolverhampton art gallery and museum is now at http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/university/ sles/gallery/guide.html. Low- brow Web site: Anorak gives an update of the latest tabloid stories at http://www. anorak.co.uk.

Finally, it is Hallowe'en tomorrow night and the witch-crazy Americans have plenty of spooky sites. Try http://www.primeet.com/trix/ hallo. htm. For weird art, check out the "Nightmare Gallery". It is at http://thomas.balliol. ox.ac.uk/gallery2/index.html.