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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Jeremy H. Sproat writes:
> 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'll pray for you.
> 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*
Next time reply, "Yes you can, and you can be ignorant and paranoid, and be
unwilling to change."
> ofofftopic: I need to come up with a tern describing drivers who take a full
> minute to realize the light had turned green...
Would that be an arctic tern or a New York tern?
> Darth Maul Lives
I thought I saw him at Safeway the other day looking at the frozen broccoli.
-Tom McD.
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