full-disclosure - Re: Viral hoax

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From: Alexandru.Balan at iNES.RO (Alexandru Balan)
Subject: Re: Viral hoax

Dude.. that was a joke type of hoax virus.. or somethin' like that.
Nobody is supposed to be stupid enough to take that mail seriously

On Mon, 2003-05-19 at 13:40, Volker Tanger wrote:
> Greetings!
> 
> On 19 May 2003 11:16:14 +0300 Alexandru Balan <Alexandru.Balan@...S.RO>
> wrote:
> 
> > "hello, since we couldn't write our own virus, please delete all the
> > files on your hard drive and send this message to everyone you know"
> 
> Obviously they were not able to write their own virus, else the
> instuction would have been: "send [...] message [...] and delete [...]" 
> The other (original) way round the message would have been deleted
> first, so infecting other PCs would not be possible, thus the virus was
> killing itself in the very first iteration...
> 
> Bye
> 
> Volker Tanger
-- 
Jay
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