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?

[Rebelbase]

This is scary, what is to come of us?

[Honcho]

Yea, and it only infects computers on APRIL FOOLS DAY!

[Rebelbase]

Check your system ping.

[T. P. Pole]

I heard that surge protecters won't even stop it.

[Jewels1091]

I really don't think this is possible. Think about it, how would it get there???

[Andyman]

The only safe thing to do is to unplug your computer, and to leave it unplugged. This will save us all.

[Texaggie79]

I heard that it emits electromagnetic pulses from your CPU and destroys all electronic devises within a mile radius!!

[tomkat]

it's that ac/dc conflict that makes it so virulent ...

big question is, is it nature or nurture ??

[tacticalogic]

I've heard about this. The virus has a very large payload, and can be effectively blocked by tying a knot in your computer power core.

[weikel]

I wonder how many idiots will be fooled by this.

[Rebelbase]

Just to be safe, I unplugged my computer and put those child safety plugs in the wall. That ought to stop it from leaking out.

[Rockitz]

That was my thought when I saw the title.

[Poohbah]

If you receive an email entitled "Badtimes," delete it immediately. Do not open it. Apparently this one is pretty nasty. It will not only erase everything on your hard drive, but it will also delete anything on disks within 20 feet of your computer.

It demagnetizes the stripes on ALL of your credit cards. It reprograms your ATM access code, screws up the tracking on your VCR and uses subspace field harmonics to scratch any CD's you attempt to play. It will re-calibrate your refrigerator's coolness settings so all your ice cream melts and your milk curdles. It will program your phone autodial to call only your ex-spouses' number. This virus will mix antifreeze into your fish tank. It will drink all your beer. It will leave dirty socks on the coffee table when you are expecting company. Its radioactive emissions will cause your bellybutton fuzz (be honest, you have some) to migrate behind your ears. It will replace your shampoo with Nair and your Nair with Rogaine, all while dating your current boy/girlfriend behind your back and billing their hotel rendezvous to your Visa card. It will cause you to run with scissors and throw things in a way that is only fun until someone loses an eye. It will give you Dutch Elm Disease and Psitticosis. It will rewrite your backup files, changing all your active verbs to passive tense and incorporating undetectable misspellings which grossly change the interpretations of key sentences. It will leave the toilet seat up and leave your hair dryer plugged in dangerously close to a full bathtub. It will not only remove the forbidden tags from your mattresses and pillows, but it will also refill your skim milk with whole milk. It will replace all your luncheon meat with Spam. It will molecularly rearrange your cologne or perfume, causing it to smell like dill pickles. It is insidious and subtle. It is dangerous and terrifying to behold. It is also a rather interesting shade of mauve. These are just a few signs of infection.

[ASA Vet]

I'm not worried about this one.
I have my own proto-type cold fusion power system.
I'm not hooked up to the "power grid" anymore.

[weikel]

Its not possible computer information doesn't go through the power supply.

[Bigg Red]

The virus has a very large payload, and can be effectively blocked by tying a knot in your computer power core.

Oh, thank you, thank you, for the help with countermeasures. Is that a square knot or a gordian knot?

[GraniteStateConservative]

Remember to always wear latex gloves when using a computer to keep from getting computer viruses. That's what I do and I'm virus-free!

[Neets]

[Lazamataz]

It can also infect your television. Causes static and those Thighmaster commercials.

[Unknown Freeper]