Electrical Wall Socket Computer Virus

email ^ | 4/1/02 | Rebelbase

[Rebelbase]

This is scary, has anyone seen the email thats going around about a new computer virus that resides in your computer's power supply and transmits/infects from via the electrical wall socket?

It uses 220-221, Volts, whatever it takes and spreads itself to entire electrical grids.

Has anyone else heard about this?

[HairOfTheDog]

I had male plugs on both ends

I don't think you should say that on a conservative website.

[chasing70]

On second thought that might just "blow" a fuse.

[Rebelbase]

Your #53 reminded me of an April Fools joke I pulled 11 years ago, posted here as "My Best Practical Joke"

[Rebelbase]

"Please delete all of your files. Thank thee. "

LOL!

[Rebelbase]

There's a Monica joke in there somewhere.

[chasing70]

It also might be cause for a large "Bill"

[Steven W.]

Too bad you did this on April Fools day when people are on alert. Instead of only 20-30% FReepers believing this at face value & freaking out you could have gotten a whole bunch of paranoid technically challenged schizo's rampaging on MSFT & everything else a stupid daily / weekly virus alert usually brings out in such people. Good joke, though! ;)

[Lokibob]

Thanks to Scott Adams (Dilbert fame), who had the idea first, I took a co-workers picture of his family that he had on his desk.  I photo copied it and cut/pasted my picture on the faces of his 3 kids.  Then I printed it out on photopaper, wrote "APRIL FOOLS 1/4/98" on the back.  When he went to lunch on April fools day, I put my new picture over his families picture on his desk.

 

Two months later, he discovered it.  We still laugh about it.

[Deguello]

The safest and easiest way to remove bugs and viruses from your hard drive is to remove the drive and put it into your microwave oven.

There is a key to doing this properly. You must first program the microwave for 3 minutes at defrost and then blast the drive for ten full minutes on High.

Re-install your Windows.

[razorback-bert]

Re-install your Windows

Double hung or picture windows?

[nightdriver]

"It uses 220-221, Volts, whatever it takes and spreads itself to entire electrical grids."

Not to worry. It can only work on DIGITAL power outlets. Analog outlets can't support the protocol.

[ihavetheanswer]

I'm sorry,.....I don't have the answer for this one!

[Reactionary]

This is a joke. Think about it: Where, exactly, would a bit of code reside in a power supply? There isn't any RAM for it to reside in - and no underlying operating system that would make it possible for the code to execute.

[Victoria Delsoul]

[LTCJ]

This is scary. I unplugged my computer and FreeRepublic went blank!

DON'T PANIC! There's still EternalHope because your keyboard still appears to be working!

[NorseWood]

I was working on my income tax return last night and I plugged my computer into a 220 volt outlet to make the calculations run faster. Did I catch the virus, and is this why my computer started smoking?

[Rebelbase]

220, 221, whatever it takes.

[Rebelbase]

I like that one!

[wardaddy]

LOL....seriously I have a tech friend who tells me that at some point info will travel power grids much like it does phone lines and cable tv lines today....seriously.

[ofMagog]

I wish you wouldn't smoke that stuff...