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12 December 2003, 11:27 AM
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If you receive an email entitled "Bad Times" 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 demagnetises the strips on your credit cards.
It reprogrammes your PIN number, screws up the tracking on your VCR and uses subspace field harmonics to scratch any CD's you attempt to play.
It will programme your telephone auto dialler to call only 0898 numbers.
It will mix anti-freeze into your fish tank.
IT WILL CAUSE YOUR TOILET TO FLUSH WHILST YOU ARE SHOWERING.
It will drink all of your beer.
It will leave dirty underwear on the coffee table when you are expecting company.
It will replace your shampoo with hair remover and your hair remover with Miracle Hairgrow whilst dating your current boy/girlfriend behind your back and charging 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 rewrite your backup files, changing all your active verbs to passive tense and incorporating undetectable misspellings that seriously change the interpretation of key sentences.
It will refill your skimmed milk with full cream milk; or worse, your full cream milk with skimmed milk.
If the "Bad Times" message is opened in a Windows 95/98 environment it will leave the toilet seat up and your hair drier plugged in dangerously close to a bath full of hot water.
WARN AS MANY PEOPLE AS YOU CAN.
If you don't send this to at least 5000 people in the next two minutes you'll fart so hard that your right leg will spasm and shoot straight out in front of you, kicking your partner in a very tender area.
Who said that IT was a boring industry?
Doug
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 demagnetises the strips on your credit cards.
It reprogrammes your PIN number, screws up the tracking on your VCR and uses subspace field harmonics to scratch any CD's you attempt to play.
It will programme your telephone auto dialler to call only 0898 numbers.
It will mix anti-freeze into your fish tank.
IT WILL CAUSE YOUR TOILET TO FLUSH WHILST YOU ARE SHOWERING.
It will drink all of your beer.
It will leave dirty underwear on the coffee table when you are expecting company.
It will replace your shampoo with hair remover and your hair remover with Miracle Hairgrow whilst dating your current boy/girlfriend behind your back and charging 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 rewrite your backup files, changing all your active verbs to passive tense and incorporating undetectable misspellings that seriously change the interpretation of key sentences.
It will refill your skimmed milk with full cream milk; or worse, your full cream milk with skimmed milk.
If the "Bad Times" message is opened in a Windows 95/98 environment it will leave the toilet seat up and your hair drier plugged in dangerously close to a bath full of hot water.
WARN AS MANY PEOPLE AS YOU CAN.
If you don't send this to at least 5000 people in the next two minutes you'll fart so hard that your right leg will spasm and shoot straight out in front of you, kicking your partner in a very tender area.
Who said that IT was a boring industry?
Doug
12 December 2003, 11:29 AM
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Doh... pays to read it first!
its actually listed as an official hoax!!!
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/ven...imes-hoax.html
[Edited by ajm - 12/12/2003 11:30:46 AM]
its actually listed as an official hoax!!!
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/ven...imes-hoax.html
[Edited by ajm - 12/12/2003 11:30:46 AM]
12 December 2003, 11:35 AM
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Symantec Security Response encourages you to ignore any messages regarding this hoax. It is harmless and is intended only to cause unwarranted concern.
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