Re: LZ: INTERNET VIRUS ALERT (HOAX!)
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Will Stokes (3D Diamond productions / Global Games) wrote:
>
> I don't know if this virus really exists but I have already recieved this
> warning message about 100 TIMES!! REALLY!!!!! Maybe the warning message is
> becoming more of a virus itself, filling up everybodies inbox everywhere.
>
I think this whole thing is a bunch of bullshit
1. Viewing a text file in your mail reader will _NEVER_ give you a virus.
2. The only time it's been possible to physically damage a disk drive with software was back in the day
of MFM/RLL hard drives, when you could instruct the drive to access non-existant cylinders thus smashing the
heads into the spindle or casing of the drive. Modern drives are designed in such a way that this is not
possible.
3. It is not possible to cause hardware damage to any modern CPU by executing any instruction or loop --
even for an extended period of time.
4. If you see a file named PKZIP*.ZIP, you know it's bogus. PK-Ware does not distribute its software as
ZIP files, because if you need the program, you must not have it, and therefore can't possibly run it to unzip
the distribution file! Even upgrades aren't distributed this way.
5. The FCC does not investigate computer viruses.
Gotta be a hoax.
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