[JustPiper]

I'm wondering if all along the countdown clock was for the pc virus against Microsoft? Because today is the day it was to peak and die.

[Labyrinthos]

I recall the countdown clock as originally posted before it was yanked. There was no doubt that the clock was intended to signify the date and time by which AQ would initiate the mother of all strikes -- an attack that would make 09.11 look like a picnic in the park. I recall that several of the regulars on this thread wondered whether that was the date and time by which the attack was to occur or whether it signified the start of the attack, and based upon the text that accompanied the clock, we pretty much came to the consensus that the attack would occur by the time the clock struck zero.