WARNING: CNN Worst Virus Ever
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Got this e-mail from a friend, don't have internet access here at work. I'm trying to determine the validity of this... anyone else heard of this? It sounds too much like a hoax to me. -- QUOTE -- ----- WORST VIRUS EVER ---CNN ANNOUNCED ~ PLEASE SEND THIS TO EVERYONE ON YOUR CONTACT LIST!!! A new virus has just been discovered that has been classified by Microsoft as the most destructive ever This virus was discovered yesterday afternoon by McAfee and no vaccine has yet been developed. This virus simply destroys Sector Zero from the hard disk, where vital information for its functioning are stored. ... (etc) -- Raoul Snyman Saturn Laboratories e-mail: raoul.snyman@saturnlaboratories.co.za web: http://www.saturnlaboratories.co.za/ linux user: #333298
Microsoft doesn't send out routine virus warnings; nor does IBM, HP, or anyone else in this industry. You can subscribe to such services, but anything you receive of this ilk can be safely assumed to be a hoax if you're not a subscriber to such a service. I don't understand the mentality that creates such messages - it's infantile - but you should always ignore anything that you receive which asks you to forward it to all of your friends. I've been surfing the 'net since God made a kite string fat enough to carry the signal, and I've never seen a legitimate message with this phrasing. "If it's Snowbird season, why can't we shoot them?" - Overheard in a bar in Bullhead City
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Microsoft doesn't send out routine virus warnings; nor does IBM, HP, or anyone else in this industry. You can subscribe to such services, but anything you receive of this ilk can be safely assumed to be a hoax if you're not a subscriber to such a service. I don't understand the mentality that creates such messages - it's infantile - but you should always ignore anything that you receive which asks you to forward it to all of your friends. I've been surfing the 'net since God made a kite string fat enough to carry the signal, and I've never seen a legitimate message with this phrasing. "If it's Snowbird season, why can't we shoot them?" - Overheard in a bar in Bullhead City
Reminds me of that bit about the virus that's going to take all your money from your bank, steal the beer from your fridge and so on :) Cheers, Tom Archer - Archer Consulting Group Programmer Trainer and Mentor and Project Management Consultant
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Raoul: I was sent this by a friend of MINE last week. I checked on McAfee and CNN immediately. Nothing on either one. It's a hoax. Bob Scott
thanks. that's what i thought. -- Raoul Snyman Saturn Laboratories e-mail: raoul.snyman@saturnlaboratories.co.za web: http://www.saturnlaboratories.co.za/ linux user: #333298
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Microsoft doesn't send out routine virus warnings; nor does IBM, HP, or anyone else in this industry. You can subscribe to such services, but anything you receive of this ilk can be safely assumed to be a hoax if you're not a subscriber to such a service. I don't understand the mentality that creates such messages - it's infantile - but you should always ignore anything that you receive which asks you to forward it to all of your friends. I've been surfing the 'net since God made a kite string fat enough to carry the signal, and I've never seen a legitimate message with this phrasing. "If it's Snowbird season, why can't we shoot them?" - Overheard in a bar in Bullhead City
these messages are written for those like my friend who know almost nothing about computers. they know how to switch it on, and type up a document or an e-mail, but that's all... classic examples of social engineering... -- Raoul Snyman Saturn Laboratories e-mail: raoul.snyman@saturnlaboratories.co.za web: http://www.saturnlaboratories.co.za/ linux user: #333298
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Microsoft doesn't send out routine virus warnings; nor does IBM, HP, or anyone else in this industry. You can subscribe to such services, but anything you receive of this ilk can be safely assumed to be a hoax if you're not a subscriber to such a service. I don't understand the mentality that creates such messages - it's infantile - but you should always ignore anything that you receive which asks you to forward it to all of your friends. I've been surfing the 'net since God made a kite string fat enough to carry the signal, and I've never seen a legitimate message with this phrasing. "If it's Snowbird season, why can't we shoot them?" - Overheard in a bar in Bullhead City
> I've been surfing the 'net since God made a kite string fat enough to carry the signal :-D I love it. regards, Paul Watson South Africa The Code Project
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Reminds me of that bit about the virus that's going to take all your money from your bank, steal the beer from your fridge and so on :) Cheers, Tom Archer - Archer Consulting Group Programmer Trainer and Mentor and Project Management Consultant
Ah - I haven't seen that for ages <rummages in dog-eared book of good stuff>. Ah-ha!
If you receive an e-mail with a subject of "Bad Times",
delete it immediately WITHOUT reading it. This is the most
dangerous e-mail virus yet.It will re-write your hard drive. Not only that, but it
will scramble any disks that are even close to your
computer. It will recalibrate your refrigerator's coolness
setting so all your ice cream goes melty.It will demagnetize the strips on all your credit cards,
screw up the tracking on your VCR and use subspace field
harmonics to scratch any CD's you try to play.It will give your ex-boyfriend/girlfriend your new phone
number.It will mix Coca-Cola into your fish tank. It will drink
all your beer and leave its socks out on the coffee table
when there's company coming over. It will put a dead kitten
in the back pocket of your good suit pants and hide your
car keys when you are late for work.This virus is capable of making you fall in love with a
penguin.It will give you nightmares about circus midgets. It will
pour sugar in your gas tank and shave off both your
eyebrows while dating your current boyfriend/girlfriend
behind your back and billing the dinner and hotel room
to your Visa card.It will seduce your grandmother. It does not matter if
she is dead, such is the power of "Bad Times", it reaches
out beyond the grave to sully those things we hold most
dear.It moves your car randomly around parking lots so you
can't find it. It will kick your dog. It will leave
libidinous messages on your boss's voice mail in your
voice! It is insidious and subtle. It is dangerous and
terrifying to behold.It is also a rather interesting shade of mauve.
"Bad Times" will give you Dutch Elm disease. It will
leave the toilet seat up. It will make a batch of
amphetamines in your bathtub and then leave bacon cooking
on the stove while it goes out to chase children with
your new garden blower.These are just a few signs... Just be very careful!
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Got this e-mail from a friend, don't have internet access here at work. I'm trying to determine the validity of this... anyone else heard of this? It sounds too much like a hoax to me. -- QUOTE -- ----- WORST VIRUS EVER ---CNN ANNOUNCED ~ PLEASE SEND THIS TO EVERYONE ON YOUR CONTACT LIST!!! A new virus has just been discovered that has been classified by Microsoft as the most destructive ever This virus was discovered yesterday afternoon by McAfee and no vaccine has yet been developed. This virus simply destroys Sector Zero from the hard disk, where vital information for its functioning are stored. ... (etc) -- Raoul Snyman Saturn Laboratories e-mail: raoul.snyman@saturnlaboratories.co.za web: http://www.saturnlaboratories.co.za/ linux user: #333298
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Ah - I haven't seen that for ages <rummages in dog-eared book of good stuff>. Ah-ha!
If you receive an e-mail with a subject of "Bad Times",
delete it immediately WITHOUT reading it. This is the most
dangerous e-mail virus yet.It will re-write your hard drive. Not only that, but it
will scramble any disks that are even close to your
computer. It will recalibrate your refrigerator's coolness
setting so all your ice cream goes melty.It will demagnetize the strips on all your credit cards,
screw up the tracking on your VCR and use subspace field
harmonics to scratch any CD's you try to play.It will give your ex-boyfriend/girlfriend your new phone
number.It will mix Coca-Cola into your fish tank. It will drink
all your beer and leave its socks out on the coffee table
when there's company coming over. It will put a dead kitten
in the back pocket of your good suit pants and hide your
car keys when you are late for work.This virus is capable of making you fall in love with a
penguin.It will give you nightmares about circus midgets. It will
pour sugar in your gas tank and shave off both your
eyebrows while dating your current boyfriend/girlfriend
behind your back and billing the dinner and hotel room
to your Visa card.It will seduce your grandmother. It does not matter if
she is dead, such is the power of "Bad Times", it reaches
out beyond the grave to sully those things we hold most
dear.It moves your car randomly around parking lots so you
can't find it. It will kick your dog. It will leave
libidinous messages on your boss's voice mail in your
voice! It is insidious and subtle. It is dangerous and
terrifying to behold.It is also a rather interesting shade of mauve.
"Bad Times" will give you Dutch Elm disease. It will
leave the toilet seat up. It will make a batch of
amphetamines in your bathtub and then leave bacon cooking
on the stove while it goes out to chase children with
your new garden blower.These are just a few signs... Just be very careful!
Chris Maunder wrote: It is also a rather interesting shade of mauve. Shades of Douglas Adams there, wouldn't you say? Hmmm? :|
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Got this e-mail from a friend, don't have internet access here at work. I'm trying to determine the validity of this... anyone else heard of this? It sounds too much like a hoax to me. -- QUOTE -- ----- WORST VIRUS EVER ---CNN ANNOUNCED ~ PLEASE SEND THIS TO EVERYONE ON YOUR CONTACT LIST!!! A new virus has just been discovered that has been classified by Microsoft as the most destructive ever This virus was discovered yesterday afternoon by McAfee and no vaccine has yet been developed. This virus simply destroys Sector Zero from the hard disk, where vital information for its functioning are stored. ... (etc) -- Raoul Snyman Saturn Laboratories e-mail: raoul.snyman@saturnlaboratories.co.za web: http://www.saturnlaboratories.co.za/ linux user: #333298
It's called the human panic instinct virus and it is real.... It is not a computer virus per se, but a human behavior virus. you panic, send the email to 4 friends, each of them send it to 4 friends, each of them send it to 4 friends... etc. etc. etc. pretty soon there are email jams as bad as spam, the net slows down from increased traffic, you blame it on the virus, panic some more, send out a few more warnings to aquantances thinking that no one sent them the warning, so the virus got to them. Email load increases even more.... Luckily, though, there have been few coming close to being successful. The message occassionally hits someone who asks, and stops the email "chain letter" after finding out. :) You did well to ask, congrats! _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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Ah - I haven't seen that for ages <rummages in dog-eared book of good stuff>. Ah-ha!
If you receive an e-mail with a subject of "Bad Times",
delete it immediately WITHOUT reading it. This is the most
dangerous e-mail virus yet.It will re-write your hard drive. Not only that, but it
will scramble any disks that are even close to your
computer. It will recalibrate your refrigerator's coolness
setting so all your ice cream goes melty.It will demagnetize the strips on all your credit cards,
screw up the tracking on your VCR and use subspace field
harmonics to scratch any CD's you try to play.It will give your ex-boyfriend/girlfriend your new phone
number.It will mix Coca-Cola into your fish tank. It will drink
all your beer and leave its socks out on the coffee table
when there's company coming over. It will put a dead kitten
in the back pocket of your good suit pants and hide your
car keys when you are late for work.This virus is capable of making you fall in love with a
penguin.It will give you nightmares about circus midgets. It will
pour sugar in your gas tank and shave off both your
eyebrows while dating your current boyfriend/girlfriend
behind your back and billing the dinner and hotel room
to your Visa card.It will seduce your grandmother. It does not matter if
she is dead, such is the power of "Bad Times", it reaches
out beyond the grave to sully those things we hold most
dear.It moves your car randomly around parking lots so you
can't find it. It will kick your dog. It will leave
libidinous messages on your boss's voice mail in your
voice! It is insidious and subtle. It is dangerous and
terrifying to behold.It is also a rather interesting shade of mauve.
"Bad Times" will give you Dutch Elm disease. It will
leave the toilet seat up. It will make a batch of
amphetamines in your bathtub and then leave bacon cooking
on the stove while it goes out to chase children with
your new garden blower.These are just a few signs... Just be very careful!
Thanks Chris! :) Cheers, Tom Archer - Archer Consulting Group Programmer Trainer and Mentor and Project Management Consultant
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Ah - I haven't seen that for ages <rummages in dog-eared book of good stuff>. Ah-ha!
If you receive an e-mail with a subject of "Bad Times",
delete it immediately WITHOUT reading it. This is the most
dangerous e-mail virus yet.It will re-write your hard drive. Not only that, but it
will scramble any disks that are even close to your
computer. It will recalibrate your refrigerator's coolness
setting so all your ice cream goes melty.It will demagnetize the strips on all your credit cards,
screw up the tracking on your VCR and use subspace field
harmonics to scratch any CD's you try to play.It will give your ex-boyfriend/girlfriend your new phone
number.It will mix Coca-Cola into your fish tank. It will drink
all your beer and leave its socks out on the coffee table
when there's company coming over. It will put a dead kitten
in the back pocket of your good suit pants and hide your
car keys when you are late for work.This virus is capable of making you fall in love with a
penguin.It will give you nightmares about circus midgets. It will
pour sugar in your gas tank and shave off both your
eyebrows while dating your current boyfriend/girlfriend
behind your back and billing the dinner and hotel room
to your Visa card.It will seduce your grandmother. It does not matter if
she is dead, such is the power of "Bad Times", it reaches
out beyond the grave to sully those things we hold most
dear.It moves your car randomly around parking lots so you
can't find it. It will kick your dog. It will leave
libidinous messages on your boss's voice mail in your
voice! It is insidious and subtle. It is dangerous and
terrifying to behold.It is also a rather interesting shade of mauve.
"Bad Times" will give you Dutch Elm disease. It will
leave the toilet seat up. It will make a batch of
amphetamines in your bathtub and then leave bacon cooking
on the stove while it goes out to chase children with
your new garden blower.These are just a few signs... Just be very careful!
Chris Maunder wrote: It will give your ex-boyfriend/girlfriend your new phone number. dang, that is a vladamire level of cruelty for a virus.... I'd rather fall in love with a penguin. ;P _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)