[3480] in Humor
IMPORTANT: Dangerous virus, deadly for MIT students.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Khusid)
Wed Jun 13 10:20:48 2001
From: "Mike Khusid" <misha37@hotmail.com>
To: humor@mit.edu
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 10:19:12 -0400
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Pay attention:
VIRUS WARNING!!!
It has been brought to my attention that there's an insidious new computer
virus which has already affected close to 30 million computers.
Even though I'm running the latest McAfee and Norton viri scans, neither
have picked up this virus as it's a mutating virus which isn't set to go off
until Friday, June 8, 2001.
As many viri are, this one is transmitted by email. I'm required by law to
contact everyone that has received email from me in the last six months and
warn them about this virus.
TO REMOVE THIS VIRUS BEFORE IT BECOMES EFFECTIVE:
** Click your start button.
** Click on "Find".
** Click on Files / Folders.
** Change the "look in" input box to "My Computer".
** The named input file should have: AOL.EXE
Once the find engine has located the file, highlight it and press the delete
button.
Deleting this file will fix a damaged 30 megabyte area of your hard drive
and restore it to full functionality.
WARNING: KEEPING THIS FILE ON THE SYSTEM AFTER JUNE 8 WILL COST YOU $2.90
MORE PER MONTH!
FAILURE TO REMOVE THIS FILE WILL KEEP YOUR "UPPER MEMORY MANAGEMENT" MODULE
OF YOUR INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT (IQ OVER 85) BLOCKED. DELETING AOL.EXE WILL
FREE YOUR IQ TO GO ABOVE 85!!!
DELETING THIS FILE WILL ALLOW YOU TO SPELL CORRECTLY AND USE THE ENGLISH
LANGUAGE PROPERLY.
BADLY INFECTED SYSTEMS (I.E., SYSTEMS THAT HAVE DESTROYED YOUR ABILITY TO
FOLLOW THE SIMPLE INSTRUCTIONS ABOVE) CAN HAVE THE VIRUS REMOVED BY
TELEPHONE. CALL 1-888-265-8008 AND TELL THE OPERATOR TO CANCEL THE VIRUS.
THE OPERATOR WILL DEACTIVATE THE VIRUS FROM THEIR END.
TECHNICAL NOTE: YOU **MUST** EXPLAIN TO THE OPERATOR YOU'RE ATTEMPTING TO
DEACTIVATE THE AOL.EXE VIRUS. THE TECHNICAL SUPPORT OFFICE YOU'RE TALKING TO
IS EXTREMELY PROFESSIONALLY EMBARRASSED BY UNLEASHING THIS VIRUS ON THE
WORLD AND WILL DELAY DEACTIVATING IT. FOR LEGAL REASONS, THEY MAY EVEN
*DENY* THE EXISTENCE OF THE AOL.EXE VIRUS. DON'T FALL FOR THEIR STORY!
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