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Electrical Wall Socket Computer Virus
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| 4/1/02
| Rebelbase
Posted on 04/01/2002 7:10:00 AM PST by 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?
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To: chasing70
I had male plugs on both endsI don't think you should say that on a conservative website.
To: HairOfTheDog
On second thought that might just "blow" a fuse.
To: Lokibob
To: ThinkingMan
"Please delete all of your files. Thank thee. "
LOL!
To: chasing70
There's a Monica joke in there somewhere.
To: Rebelbase
It also might be cause for a large "Bill"
To: Rebelbase
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! ;)
To: Rebelbase
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.
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posted on
04/01/2002 8:29:56 AM PST
by
Lokibob
To: Rebelbase
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.
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posted on
04/01/2002 8:33:39 AM PST
by
Deguello
To: Deguello
Re-install your WindowsDouble hung or picture windows?
To: Rebelbase
"
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.
To: Poohbah
I'm sorry,.....I don't have the answer for this one!
To: Rebelbase
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.
To: Rebelbase
To: EternalHope
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!
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posted on
04/01/2002 9:30:01 AM PST
by
LTCJ
To: Rebelbase
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?
To: NorseWood
220, 221, whatever it takes.
To: Victoria Delsoul
I like that one!
To: Rebelbase
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.
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posted on
04/01/2002 10:06:24 AM PST
by
wardaddy
To: razorback-bert;Scuttlebutt;Billie;LadyX;Fred Mertz;beowolf;Snow Bunny
I wish you wouldn't smoke that stuff...
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posted on
04/01/2002 10:32:44 AM PST
by
ofMagog
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