At 04:40 PM 11/19/97 -0500, Doug McKean wrote:
>
>This is total garbage. You cannot activate
>a virus from a text file. It has to be
>either a "*.com", "*.exe", or macro file.
>
This one, however, sounds legit ;-)
If you receive an email with a subject line of "Badtimes," delete it
immediately WITHOUT reading it. This is the most dangerous email virus
ever invented.
It will erase your entire hard drive. Then it will send itself to
anyone who has ever sent you email. Not only that, but it will
scramble any disks that are even close to your computer. It will
re-calibrate your refrigerator's coolness setting so all your ice
cream melts and milk curdles. It will demagnetize the strips on all
your credit cards, reprogram your ATM access code, screw up the
tracking on your VCR and use subspace field harmonics to scratch any
CDs you try to play. Your VCR will flash 12:00 at you, and you will
not be able to change it! It will give your ex-boy/girlfriend your new
phone number. It will mix antifreeze into your fish tank. It will
drink all your cokes and leave its dirty socks on the coffee table
when there's company coming over.
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. It will make an illegal campaign contribution in your name to
Al Gore, and it will give Bill Clinton your teenage daughter's
unlisted phone number. It will replace your shampoo with Nair and your
Nair with Rogaine. It will leave the toilet seat up and leave the
hairdryer plugged in dangerously close to a full bathtub. It will
remove the forbidden tags from your mattresses and pillows, and 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.
Richard Ciosek
Brooktrout Technology
