Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/03/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I am sure this virus warning is for real. ==================================== 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.*******