Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/03/16

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Subject: [Leica] Badtimes Virus Warning!!
From: Robert Rose <RJR@usip.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 1998 18:10:59 -0800

I am sure this virus warning is for real.
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If you receive an E-Mail with a subject line of "Badtimes," delete it
immediately without reading it. This is the most dangerous E-Mail virus
yet.

It demagnetizes the strips on all your credit cards,  reprograms your
ATM access code, messes up the tracking on your VCR and uses subspace
field harmonics to scratch any CDs you try to play.  It will completely
re-write your hard drive, (and your soft drive  too).

Not only that, 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 melts and your milk curdles.  It will give your
ex-boy/girlfriend your new phone number,  This virus will mix antifreeze
into your fish tank.  It will drink all your soda and leave dirty socks on the
coffee table when you are expecting company.  It will hide your car keys
when you are late for work and interfere with your car radio so that you hear
only static while stuck in traffic.

When executed, "Badtimes" will also give you nightmares about circus
midgets.  It will replace your shampoo with Nair and your Nair with
Rogaine.  "Badtimes" will give you Dutch Elm disease and brown patch. 
If the "Badtimes" mail message is opened in a Windows 95 environment, 
it will leave the toilet seat up and leave your hair dryer plugged in
dangerously close to a full bathtub.  It will not only remove the
forbidden tags from your mattresses and pillows, but it will also refill
your skim milk with whole milk.  It is insidious and subtle.  It is
dangerous and terrifying to behold.  It is also a rather
interesting shade of mauve.

These are just a few of the signs.

*******Be afraid, very afraid.*******