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Article #707276Re: !!! DEADLY NEW VIRUS !!!
From: BR
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 00:00
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 00:00
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one question: is MoR short for moron? MoR wrote in message ... > There is an extremely horrible, deadly new virus that >surfaced last night in Singapore. U.S. Officials say that it >could hit the U.S. within 2 weeks. An email message titled >"this is your last warning..." is infected with the most virulent >and terrifying computer virus to date. DO NOT OPEN IT!! >If you open this message, it will not only format your hard drive >but physically destroy your computer. YOUR COMPUTER >WILL BE RUINED BEYOND REPAIR if you open this message. >The virus is able to activate a soft switch (a soft switch is a switch that >is controlled by software- similar to when people shut down their computer >using Windows and the power physically turns off even though they never >pressed the power off button). >Anyway, according to IBM and Microsoft officials in last nights press >release, this virus activates a soft switch on your motherboard that >controls power to your CPU. It will cause a tremendous power surge that >will literally cause your CPU to burn (or explode). Your computer will >literally burn up from the inside. And not just that, but this virus is so >horrible, it could cause a CASCADING INVERSE POWER FLUCTUATION, by sending >an electrical signal from your computer and into your primary transistors >(that control power into your home), which could literally cause several >circuts in your home to burst into flames! Your appliances, tv's, radios- >anything and everything plugged into your wall outlets COULD LITERALLY >EXPLODE! This could cause a catostrophic fire that could burn your house to >the ground. You could lose your home, your car, your spouse, even your >children- ALL FROM OPENING THE EMAIL MESSAGE TITLED "this is your last >warning..." > >PLEASE, UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHOULD YOU OPEN IT! > >You ***M U S T*** send this email to EVERYONE you know. You must send it >everywhere on the internet. And not just to people you know, but send it to >people you dont know. Officials said that the virus could hit the U.S. by >next week. Therefore we must work EXTRA HARD to send out this message to >everyone in the U.S. by next thursday. 200 Million people need to see this >message by next week. If you ever needed to do something for humanity- to >make a difference in the world, this is it. > > > >parody copyright 2000, by MoR >www.unbelief.com > >
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From: "BR" <bog...@netscape.net> Subject: Re: !!! DEADLY NEW VIRUS !!! Date: 2000/03/22 Message-ID: <YXYB4.45$Y%1.2415@vic.nntp.telstra.net> X-Deja-AN: 600725458 References: <GFRB4.20662$Nn6.805030@newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 X-Complaints-To: ab...@telstra.net X-Trace: vic.nntp.telstra.net 953703288 203.38.197.98 (Wed, 22 Mar 2000 16:34:48 EST) Organization: Customer of Telstra Big Pond Direct NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 16:34:48 EST Newsgroups: alt.lawyers,alt.windows98,comp.lang.javascript,comp.protocols.tcp-ip,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.space-sim,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.sports,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic,rec.arts.movies.current-films MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit