If you receive an e-mail titled “Badtimes,” delete it immediately. Do not open it. This one is pretty nasty. It will not only erase everything on your hard drive but will delete everything within 20 feet of your computer. It demagnetizes the strips on your credit cards, reprograms your ATM access code, screws up the tracking on your VCR and uses subspace field harmonics to scratch any CDs you attemp to play.
It will program your telephone’s auto-dial to call only your mother-in-law’s number. It will drink all your beer. It will leave dirty socks on the coffee table when you are expecting company. It will cause you to run with scissors and give you Dutch elm disease.
It will leave the toilet seat up and leave your hair dryer plugged in next to a full bathtub. It will remove the forbidden tags from your mattresses and pillows, and refill your skim milk with whole.
It is insidious and subtle. It is also a rather interesting shade of mauve.
(from Reader’s Digest, June 2002. Hope I didn’t really scare you)
[ This Message was edited by: whatzitt on 2002-10-22 14:38 ]
Oh, that’s a different one, Teri. The Reader’s Digest one doesn’t replace your lunch meat with Spam.
I hate getting Spam from viruses…
Ah, spam.
I obviously have this virus. How do I delete it from my hard drive? KILL ALL WHISTLE PLAYERSSSSSS
LOL!!!
On 2002-10-22 14:28, Teri-K wrote:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/badtimes-hoax.htmlTeri
Seriously (sort of) doesn’t their listing it on the Symantec site suggest tat someone actually fell for it and ran to them in a panic, causing them to post the hoax page? Perhaps not, but I’ve heard of people eating contraceptive jelly, so who knows.
On 2002-10-23 05:30, Dewhistle wrote:
On 2002-10-22 14:28, Teri-K wrote:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/badtimes-hoax.htmlTeri
Seriously (sort of) doesn’t their listing it on the Symantec site suggest tat someone actually fell for it and ran to them in a panic, causing them to post the hoax page? Perhaps not, but I’ve heard of people eating contraceptive jelly, so who knows.
Oh, it’s the infamous “Kentucky (KY) Jelly” incident! Goes great on toast, eh?
I heard two other stories which were similar. In one of them, thieves broke into a veterinarian’s office and thought they had found some OxyContin. It turned out they actually had stolen OxyTocin, a labor-inducing drug! Imagine what happened when they snorted it!
In the other one, two thieves broke into a house in England and discovered a jar labeled “Charlie”. As some of you know, “Charlie” is British slang for cocaine. They poured the “Charlie” out on the kitchen table and began snorting away. While this was going on, the owners returned, caught the thieves, and told them they were actually snorting the ashes of their dead dog, “Charlie”!
Thief 1: “Is this doing anything for you?”
Thief 2: “Not really, but I have a tremendous urge to hike my leg on a fireplug!”