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James Brown wrote:
> How can anyone in the I/T industry not be aware of Mailissa? It's stunningly
> unsubtle, it screams "I'm a virus, open me!", and it's been in the freaking
> evening news!
I am in software development. I just thumped one of our testers for
forwarding me a warning message (obstensibly from AOL *and* IBM *and*
Netscape) about an e-mail virus titled "It Takes Guts To Say Jesus" which,
upon opening, will erase your hard drive and *THEN* forward itself to
everyone on the planet. I took the time to explain to him about the
technical nuances of opening an e-mail message, and the safety hard drives
typically have from rogue e-mail messages, and the fact that the message he
sent me contained no real references but had more scare material than your
typical Y2K panic message. Then I explained that he had indeed propigated a
"social" computer virus (i.e. hoax), against which no anti-virus software
can defend.
To which he replied, "you can't be too careful..."
Newbies. Jeez. *thump*
ofofftopic: I need to come up with a tern describing drivers who take a full
minute to realize the light had turned green...
Cheers,
- jsproat
--
Jeremy H. Sproat <jsproat@geocities.com>
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Horizon/5249/
Darth Maul Lives
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| Ok. This is a rhetorical question, mostly as an excuse to vent. How could anyone who works in the I/T industry be so stunningly ignorant as to catch the Mailissa virus? For that matter, how could anyone who works in the I/T industry be so stunningly (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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