Some are not finding the humor in this but
personally I thought it was not to shabby of a hoax, but I'm sure that's only
because I detest the mothership that is AOL.
Anyway, there are also some good responses to
emails on the subject at the joke a day website if you are
interested.
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Ray Owens, the owner of the "Joke A Day" mailing list, sent his readers an interesting email which advised them to erase the file AOL.EXE from their hard drives to avoid a virus. Of course, AOL.EXE is not a virus, but that didn't stop thousands of readers from erasing it and destroying their America Online software. Antivirus Guide Mary Landesman reports on this joke gone bad.
Ray Owens, the owner of the "Joke A Day" mailing list, sent his readers an interesting email which advised them to erase the file AOL.EXE from their hard drives to avoid a virus. Of course, AOL.EXE is not a virus, but that didn't stop thousands of readers from erasing it and destroying their America Online software. Antivirus Guide Mary Landesman reports on this joke gone bad.
