Jason McFarland wrote:
>
> Not to belabor this virus hoax thing (which is to say, I don't
> care if I'm belaboring this virus hoax thing, listen to me, dammit!), but
> it seems you two are missing the point, at least in terms of this
> particular warning.
> It says absolutely nothing about binary attachments; it claims
> that one can get do damage to a computer simply by viewing an ASCII text
> file! This is clearly absurd. It's like saying you're in danger of
> having your eye poked out if you look at a photograph of a cue stick.
> Our friend the "VIRUS WARNING" could be called a virus itself, but
> even it is only capable of causing minor irritation and congestion in
> one's emailbox.
>
Assume that the hoaxster
gives it to 10 sincere people who want to help protect their 10 best
friends,
each of whom give it to 10,
each of whom give it to 10,
each of whom give it to 10,
each of whom give it to 10
each of whom give it to 10
Now you've got a million people passing worthless info around the net,
slowing it down, wasting bandwidth. Multiply by the number of hoaxes
and now you see the damage. Add to this mess the messages like mine and
yours explaining (for the umpteenth time) what a hoax is and how it
really works and...... It amounts to nothing more than turning people
into unwitting spammers.
Jerry
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