Super virus - Not SARS -

paint it black · 15 Apr 2003, 08:15

Can't confirm this isn't a hoax, but it seems to be moving very quicky

A new virus has just been discovered that has been classified by Microsoft as the most destructive ever! This virus was discovered yesterday afternoon by McAfee and no vaccine has yet ! been developed. This virus simply destroys Sector Zero from the hard disk, where vital information for its functioning are stored.

This virus acts in the following manner: It sends itself automatically to all contacts on your list with the title "A Card for You".

As soon as the supposed virtual card is opened, the computer freezes so that the user has to reboot. When the ctrl+alt+del keys or the reset button are pressed, the virus destroys Sector Zero, thus permanently destroying the hard disk. Yesterday in just a few hours this virus caused panic in New York, according to news broadcast by CNN. This alert was received by an employee of Microsoft itself.

So don't open any mails wi! th subject: "A Virtual Card for You."

As soon as you get the mail, delete it!! Even if you know the sender!!!

hallucienate · 15 Apr 2003, 09:16

Sorry PiB: It appears to be a hoax: http://hoaxinfo.com/virtualcard.htm

All in a days work.

And the one about deleting the teddy bear is also hoax.

MrEddy · 15 Apr 2003, 16:26

Do you both work in IT, then? It seems to be the proffession of many a reformed goth!

paint it black · 15 Apr 2003, 16:52

MrEddy wrote:Do you both work in IT, then? It seems to be the proffession of many a reformed goth!

lol . you jest

if i did, i wouldn't be posting crap like that would i

hallucienate · 15 Apr 2003, 18:10

There is nothing reformed about PiB, although he is learning HTML

As for me, yup, IT.

I'm probably more tanned than the rest of you, these days.

Andy TG · 15 Apr 2003, 18:14

MrEddy wrote:Do you both work in IT, then? It seems to be the proffession of many a reformed goth!

Yes - I work in IT! - and not so much of the "Reformed" thank you very much

hallucienate · 15 Apr 2003, 18:20

If you receive an e-mail entitled "Badtimes," delete it
immediately. Do not open it. Apparently this one is pretty
nasty.

It will not only erase everything on your hard drive, but it will
also delete anything on disks within 20 feet of your computer.

It demagnetizes the stripes on ALL of your credit cards.

It reprograms your ATM access code, screws up the tracking on
your VCR and uses subspace field harmonics to scratch any CD's
you attempt to play.

It will re-calibrate your refrigerator's coolness settings so all
your ice cream melts and your milk curdles.

It will program your phone AutoDial to call only your
mother-in-law's number.

This virus will mix antifreeze into your fish tank.

It will drink all your beer.

It will leave dirty socks on the coffee table when you are
expecting company.

Its radioactive emissions will cause your toe jam and bellybutton
fuzz to migrate behind your ears.

It will replace your shampoo with Nair and your Nair with
Rogaine, all while dating your current boy/girlfriend behind your
back and billing their hotel rendezvous to your Visa card.

It will cause you to run with scissors and throw things in a way
that is only fun until someone loses an eye.

It will give you Dutch Elm Disease and Tinea.

It will rewrite your backup files, changing all your active verbs
to passive tense and incorporating undetectable misspellings
which grossly change the interpretations of key sentences.

If the "Badtimes" message is opened in a Windows95 environment,
it will leave the toilet seat up and leave your hair dryer
plugged in dangerously close to a full bathtub.

It will not only remove the forbidden tags from your mattresses
and pillows, but it will also refill your skim milk with whole
milk.

It will replace all your luncheon meat with Spam.

It will molecularly rearange your cologne or perfume, causing it
to smell like dill pickles.

It is insidious and subtle. It is dangerous and terrifying to
behold. It is also a rather interesting shade of mauve.

These are just a few signs of infection.

Andy TG · 15 Apr 2003, 18:21

Everyone

Please read and digest the following about the "Card For You" Hoax Virus

Knew You'd Pleased.....
_________________________________________________________

Virtual Card For You
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

First Published February, 2001
Updated September, 2002

This is a complete hoax. There is no virus with the heading "A Virtual Card for You" or "A Card For You". Nearly all the anti-virus sites who alert people to hoaxes have this one listed as a hoax. The tip off here is the reference to Microsoft. The Microsoft Corporation does not make announcements, classify, or in anyway keep track of viruses. They do internally respond to security holes in their browser and e-mail program (Outlook) to help make infection through these programs more difficult, but they are not in the antivirus business.

There was no panic in New York or anywhere else. And again, no virus can "permanently destroys a hard drive" or any other hardware device. Viruses are just computer programs and the affect data only, not hardware. Even if a virus could destroy the FAT (file allocation table) stored in the zero sector of your hard drive, a second copy is stored on your hard drive and your computer would access that one if the first was not found.

Just dump this one and tell the person who sent it to you let everyone know this is a total fabrication.

See the following resources:

F-Secure Virtual Card for You Hoax

About.Com: AntiVirus Site: Virtual Card for You Hoax

This is the latest hoax letter, as of September 2002:

Subject: WORST VIRUS EVER...CNN ANNOUNCED

PLEASE SEND THIS TO EVERYONE ON YOUR CONTACT LIST !!

A new virus has just been discovered that has been classified by
Microsoft as the most destructive ever! This virus was discovered yesterday
afternoon by McAfee and no vaccine has yet! been developed. This virus
simply destroys Sector Zero from the hard disk, where vital information for
its functioning are stored.

This virus acts in the following manner: It sends itself automatically to
all contacts on your list with the title "A Card for You."

As soon as the supposed virtual card is opened, the computer freezes so that

the user has to reboot. When the ctrl+alt+del keys or the reset button are
pressed, the virus destroys Sector Zero, thus permanently destroying the
hard disk. Yesterday in just a few hours this virus caused panic in New
York, according to news broadcast by CNN. This alert was received by an
employee of Microsoft itself.
So don't open any mails with subject: "A Virtual Card for You."
As soon as you get the mail, delete it!! Even if you know the sender!!!

Please pass this mail to all of your friends.

Forward this to everyone in your address book. I'm sure most people, like
myself, would rather receive this 25 times than not at all.

Here was the first e-mail hoax letter to circulate:

Subject: A new virus has just been discovered that has been classified by Microsoft (www.microsoft.com ) and by McAfee (www.mcafee.com ) as the most destructive ever!
This virus was discovered yesterday afternoon by McAfee and no vaccine has yet been developed. This virus simply destroys Sector Zero from the hard disk, where vital information for its functioning are stored. This virus acts in the following manner:

It sends itself automatically to all contacts on your list with the title "A Virtual Card for You". As soon as the supposed virtual card is opened, the computer freezes so that the user has to reboot. When the ctrl+alt+del keys or the reset button are pressed, the virus destroys Sector Zero, thus permanently destroying the hard disk. Yesterday in just a few hours this virus caused panic in New York, according to news broadcast by CNN (www.cnn.com ).

This alert was received by an employee of Microsoft itself. So don't open any mails with subject "A Virtual Card for You". As soon as you get the mail, delete it.

Please pass on this mail to all your friends.

nearmethexperience · 16 Apr 2003, 00:37

yup, i also swim in the pond of IT, lurking in the dark depths of

New Media

on a different note, the worse virus i ever had was an ex girlfriend (who really did destroy my HDD, as well as the machine it was inside by putting it in the garden, soaking it in petrol, and burning the fawker, claiming i spent more time with 'it' then 'her'.)

but on a brighter note it gave me the perfect opertunity to upgrade both the pc and the girlfriend to newer versions...

...always a silver lining

paint it black · 16 Apr 2003, 09:35

hallucienate wrote:If you receive an e-mail entitled "Badtimes," delete it
immediately. Do not open it. Apparently this one is pretty
nasty.

It will not only erase everything on your hard drive, but it will
also delete anything on disks within 20 feet of your computer.

It demagnetizes the stripes on ALL of your credit cards.

It reprograms your ATM access code, screws up the tracking on
your VCR and uses subspace field harmonics to scratch any CD's
you attempt to play.

It will re-calibrate your refrigerator's coolness settings so all
your ice cream melts and your milk curdles.

It will program your phone AutoDial to call only your
mother-in-law's number.

This virus will mix antifreeze into your fish tank.

It will drink all your beer.

It will leave dirty socks on the coffee table when you are
expecting company.

Its radioactive emissions will cause your toe jam and bellybutton
fuzz to migrate behind your ears.

It will replace your shampoo with Nair and your Nair with
Rogaine, all while dating your current boy/girlfriend behind your
back and billing their hotel rendezvous to your Visa card.

It will cause you to run with scissors and throw things in a way
that is only fun until someone loses an eye.

It will give you Dutch Elm Disease and Tinea.

It will rewrite your backup files, changing all your active verbs
to passive tense and incorporating undetectable misspellings
which grossly change the interpretations of key sentences.

If the "Badtimes" message is opened in a Windows95 environment,
it will leave the toilet seat up and leave your hair dryer
plugged in dangerously close to a full bathtub.

It will not only remove the forbidden tags from your mattresses
and pillows, but it will also refill your skim milk with whole
milk.

It will replace all your luncheon meat with Spam.

It will molecularly rearange your cologne or perfume, causing it
to smell like dill pickles.

It is insidious and subtle. It is dangerous and terrifying to
behold. It is also a rather interesting shade of mauve.

These are just a few signs of infection.

so you're saying this is a hoax too

there seems to be more hoaxes than viruses about

hallucienate · 16 Apr 2003, 10:21

suprisingly it does appear to be a hoax, http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/d ... -hoax.html

Some anti-virus vendors have no sense of humour.

hallucienate · 16 Apr 2003, 10:41

nearmethexperience wrote:yup, i also swim in the pond of IT, lurking in the dark depths of New Media

on a different note, the worse virus i ever had was an ex girlfriend (who really did destroy my HDD, as well as the machine it was inside by putting it in the garden, soaking it in petrol, and burning the fawker, claiming i spent more time with 'it' then 'her'.)

but on a brighter note it gave me the perfect opertunity to upgrade both the pc and the girlfriend to newer versions...

...always a silver lining

hey! look, it's a post from Mr Experience! at this rate I might get to 1000 posts before him

Sorry to hear about the burnt PC. Hope you made back ups.

Of course you spend more time with "it" than "her". Can she download and play albums months before they're released? does she turn into a coffee cup holder just by pushing the eject button? I think not.

nearmethexperience · 16 Apr 2003, 16:44

hallucienate wrote:
nearmethexperience wrote:yup, i also swim in the pond of IT, lurking in the dark depths of New Media

on a different note, the worse virus i ever had was an ex girlfriend (who really did destroy my HDD, as well as the machine it was inside by putting it in the garden, soaking it in petrol, and burning the fawker, claiming i spent more time with 'it' then 'her'.)

but on a brighter note it gave me the perfect opertunity to upgrade both the pc and the girlfriend to newer versions...

...always a silver lining
hey! look, it's a post from Mr Experience! at this rate I might get to 1000 posts before him

Sorry to hear about the burnt PC. Hope you made back ups.

Of course you spend more time with "it" than "her". Can she download and play albums months before they're released? does she turn into a coffee cup holder just by pushing the eject button? I think not.

nah, this was many many moons ago, when a p200mmx was state of the art and i spent bloody months trying to figure out what i was gonna fill a whopping 2.1gig hdd with (the answer is always porn, apparently, go figure

)

now my current object of desire (arriving sometime bloody soon or i may have a tantrum right here and pee myself) is a dell inspiron 5100, it's sex in a box, it really is, for those that care (and understand

):

PIV 2.66GHz
Intel 845-PE @ 533MHz chipset
256MB DDR ram PC2100 @ 266MHz
30GB HDD
15" XGA
ATI Radeon 7500 AGP4X 32MB DDR
CDRW24X / DVD8X
2 USB 2.0, 1 IEEE 1394, S-Video, 1 PCMCIA Ver 2
56K Modem / 10/100 LAN
Win XP (will replace with 2003 server)

all for a pocket hugging 1499 â‚¬ (plus tax i can claim back

)

and it ways in at a slight 3.3Kgs, i've vomited greater weights than that...

oh, and my other object of desire is an american school teacher called janet, more news on that front much much later

nearmethexperience · 16 Apr 2003, 16:46

oh, the post thing, hardly noticed

paint it black · 16 Apr 2003, 16:51

nearmethexperience wrote:oh, the post thing, hardly noticed

Well it's all well and good trying to sneak up your post count now through "extended" messages, but where were you, say last Saturday at 1.30pm Mr Methy

glad to see u back btw. Trust it was a good trip

nearmethexperience · 16 Apr 2003, 16:57

paint it black wrote:
nearmethexperience wrote:oh, the post thing, hardly noticed

Well it's all well and good trying to sneak up your post count now through "extended" messages, but where were you, say last Saturday at 1.30pm Mr Methy

glad to see u back btw. Trust it was a good trip

why thank you very much mr PiB

hummmmmmmmmmmm, last sat at 1:30pm, i was in a bar with 14 friends, all of whom know my name and can vouch for my high moral fibre

i believe i recall the incident you are referring to but i was in the toilet at the time and saw nothing

anyways, 3rd is still better than last in anyones book

yes, the trip was, interesting, interesting enough for me to be applying for my visa to return in october for good

seconds to the drop my friend, seconds...

nearmethexperience · 16 Apr 2003, 16:59

lordy, look at that, i'm a bomber (cue rawkus geetars al a motorhead!!)

pikkrong · 17 Apr 2003, 23:30

nearmethexperience wrote:
lordy, look at that, i'm a bomber (cue rawkus geetars al a motorhead!!)

Slight Overbomber - sounds cool

And welcome back

By the way, your avatar remainds me how nice some people are
An explanation: today I met in a supermarket two girls from local Depeche Mode Fan Club and one of them (actually a fan of Front and EBM) told me: "I have something for you" and started to grab in her bag until she found the same pic of Von.
And gave it to me.

And somebody from Dominion list uploaded Von's interview I couldn't hear at the right time.

And if I continued this story by talking about Lachert (who uploaded the Warsaw mp3s yesterday), Quiff Boy and other Heartlandres... it would be too sentimental.
Maybe I have to start topic "People Are Good"

Big Si · 18 Apr 2003, 01:00

Maybe I have to start topic "People Are Good"

mmmm......that's not a bad idea!

We could also create a s**tlist.....with posts such as "the bouncer at (insert comment) who turned me away for (insert comment)"

What does everyone else think?

pikkrong · 18 Apr 2003, 01:25

pikkrong wrote:And if I continued this story by talking about Lachert (who uploaded the Warsaw mp3s yesterday), Quiff Boy and other Heartlandres... it would be too sentimental.

and the list of those Heartlanders would be too long.
you know, who you are... i better stop

pikkrong · 18 Apr 2003, 01:41

anyway, it's better to go to sleep if you are sitting like a zombie man behind the computer at 3:45 am and editing your message 3 times instead of clicking once "quote".
shame on me