[3387] in Humor
Virus warning
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (gif)
Tue Jan 2 15:46:13 2001
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 15:26:08 -0500
From: gif <gif@MIT.EDU>
Message-Id: <20010102202608.01E02F297@ftso.org>
This appeared a little while back on symantic's web site of virus
warnings.
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Wooden Horse Hoax
VirusName: Wooden Horse Hoax
Aliases: None
Infection Length: Hoax
Area of Infection: Hoax
Likelihood: Hoax
Region Reported: Email
Characteristics: Hoax
Target Platform: Hoax
Target Date: Hoax
Description:
This information is a hoax and should be ignored.
Sample of hoax message:
TROJAN HORSE WARNING
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WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!
IF YOU RECEIVE A GIFT IN THE SHAPE OF A LARGE WOODEN HORSE DO NOT
DOWNLOAD IT!!!! It is EXTREMELY DESTRUCTIVE and will overwrite your
ENTIRE CITY!!
The "gift" is disguised as a large wooden horse about two stories
tall. It tends to show up outside the city gates and appears to be
abandoned. DO NOT let it through the gates! It contains hardware that
is incompatible with Trojan programming, including a crowd of heavily
armed Greek warriors that will destroy your army, sack your town, and
kill your women and children. If you have already received such a
gift, DO NOT OPEN IT! Take it back out of the city unopened and set
fire to it by the beach.
FORWARD THIS MESSAGE TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW!
Please ignore any messages regarding this "hoax" and do not pass on
any messages regarding it. Passing on messages about this hoax serves
only to further propagate it.
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For years a secret shame destroyed my peace --
I'd not read Eliot, Auden or MacNiece.
But now I think a thought that brings me hope:
Neither had Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Pope.
-- Justin Richardson.
