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From: shade@dragonshadow.com (Scott Cartier)
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Subject: Re: Virus Alert
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 21:13:24 GMT
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Worse yet, how about this one.  Pardon the vulgarity.  This comes
courtesy of http://www.themushroom.com

;)

I removed the irrelevant cross-posting.

Scott

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The most vicious virus yet to hit the Internet has damaged millions of

computers across the world.  The United States military intranet has 
been brought to a halt and nearly a third of all major web sites have 
been blacked out as a result. 

On Monday, thousands opened their e-mail to see the subject "For the 
love of God, don't read this message, it contains a virus!" in their 
inboxes.  Cleverly, the message was from a complete stranger with a 
bogus e-mail address, prompting curious users to check the message. 
Inside, a message read "Don't Fucking Open This File! There's a really

a nasty goddamn Virus that's gonna not only destroy all of your files,

but probably infect all of your friends in your address book, crawl
through any open ports, and just cause a lot of havoc!" 

Confused, many opened the attached file named 
"You.Stupid.Fuck.Don't.Even.Click.Anywhere.Near.This.Zip". 

The file, when extracted, contained an executable labelled
"ARRRGH_CAN'T_YOU_READ_FOR_CHRIST'S_SAKE_DON'T_RUN_THIS_DAMN_YOU.EXE."

When run, the program then displayed the following message "You are 
about to destroy everything you hold dear. Continue?" and offered
"Yes" "No" and "Cancel" as options. 

If the user clicked "Yes", a DOS prompt popped up and asked "Really 
Format Drive C:>?". If the user again chose YES, the virus then 
proceeded to delete everything on the user's hard drive, then spawn 
itself over networks and through e-mail. 

By Wednesday, over two million people had been infected after reading,

downloading, extracting, running, and choosing "Yes" twice. This virus

is twice as vicious as the Previously_Unreleased_Beatles_Song.mp3 
virus, the exclusively Macintosh and hard-to-open 
Dig_Your_Own_Grave.arj.com.bat.vxd.qt.gz.tar.exe.zip virus, and the 
This_Is_Not_A_Virus.Zip Virus - combined.