Posted on 10/28/2008 7:14:23 PM PDT by Young Werther
You've received a postcard from a family member.
(Excerpt) Read more at snopes.com ...
Thanks for the heads up.
I have spent the last 2 months sending out hundreds of links to Anti Obama videos and even the McCain supporters I know are sick of me!
If new, it's probably targeting machines vulnerable to this:
Date: 10-28-08(24:60) Number: 32769
To: ALL Refer#: NONE
From: OLD SARGE Read: (N/A)
Subj: VIRUS ALERT Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE
Warning: There’s a new virus on the loose that’s worse than
anything I’ve seen before! It gets in through the power line,
riding on the powerline 60 Hz subcarrier. It works by changing the
serial port pinouts, and by reversing the direction one’s disks
spin. Over 300,000 systems have been hit by it here in Murphy,
West Dakota alone! And that’s just in the last 12 minutes.
My God, are you LISTENING TO ME!?
It attacks Unix, SCO-unix, Linux, Macintosh, Microsoft, VMS, MVS, Multics, RSX-11, ITS, TRS-80, and VHS systems.
To prevent the spread of the virus:
1) Don’t use the powerline.
2) Don’t use batteries either, since there are rumors that this
virus has invaded most major battery plants and is infecting the
positive poles of the batteries. (You might try hooking up just
the negative pole.)
3) Don’t upload or download files.
4) Don’t store files on floppy disks or hard disks.
5) Don’t read messages. Not even this one!
6) Don’t use serial ports, modems, or phone lines.
7) Don’t use keyboards, screens, or printers.
8) Don’t use switches, CPUs, memories, microprocessors, or
mainframes.
9) Don’t use electric lights, electric or gas heat or
airconditioning, running water, writing, fire, clothing or the
wheel.
I’m sure if we are all careful to follow these 9 easy steps, this
virus can be eradicated, and the precious electronic fluids of
our computers can be kept pure.
Oh Noes! Is my “Etch-A-Sketch” safe?
It is an older one. Mine came postage due.
We are on secure computers which are monitored network-wide, and they warned us off on this email at work.
I am the Polite Virus. Please do me the great courtesy of sending me to all of your friends.
Am I safe if I’m not logged in?
Isn’t that a tagline from someplace??
AL Gore Save Us!
I think my mechanical pencil caught it over the weekend. The lead jammed at the tip and I couldn’t get it out. It must have happened when I was using it to draw a power diagram...ya think?
Wow, I think I was just channeling Carl Rove....COOL!!!
Wow, I think I was just channeling Carl Rove....COOL!!!
Another one that was on snopes:
A friend e-mailed me that there’s a computer virus going around. Don’t know if her info. is accurate but it said: “Do not open any message with an attachment entitled ‘POSTCARD FROM HALLMARK,’ regardless of who sent it to you.”
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