sailorman
Well-Known Member
Last edited:
Life is beautiful _ New Virus - Be Carefull
- Thread starter sailorman
- Start date
fireball
Well-Known Member
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_is_beautiful_virus_hoax
Please don't pass on any more of your junk email - we're not interested!
Please don't pass on any more of your junk email - we're not interested!
sailorman
Well-Known Member
colingr
Well-Known Member
Oh I do wish people would check these things before polluting my inbox or cluttering up forums with them. Just paste the key words into google always works. Never seen one yet that turned out to be real 
johnalison
Well-Known Member
About as useful as this one that came to me this morning from a friend;
Postal Scam:
Can you circulate this around especially as Xmas is fast approaching - it has been confirmed by Royal Mail. The Trading Standards Office are making people aware of the following scam:
A card is posted through your door from a company called PDS (Parcel Delivery Service) suggesting that they were unable to deliver a parcel and that you need to contact them on 0906 6611911 (a Premium rate number).
DO NOT call this number, as this is a mail scam originating from Belize .
If you call the number and you start to hear a recorded message you will already have been billed £315 for the phone call.
If you do receive a card with these details, then please contact Royal Mail Fraud on 020 7239 6655.
For more information, see the Crime Stoppers website:
http://www.crimestoppers-uk.org/crime-prevention/helping-prevent-crime/scams/postal-delivery-scam
Don't bother; it was all over in 2005
Postal Scam:
Can you circulate this around especially as Xmas is fast approaching - it has been confirmed by Royal Mail. The Trading Standards Office are making people aware of the following scam:
A card is posted through your door from a company called PDS (Parcel Delivery Service) suggesting that they were unable to deliver a parcel and that you need to contact them on 0906 6611911 (a Premium rate number).
DO NOT call this number, as this is a mail scam originating from Belize .
If you call the number and you start to hear a recorded message you will already have been billed £315 for the phone call.
If you do receive a card with these details, then please contact Royal Mail Fraud on 020 7239 6655.
For more information, see the Crime Stoppers website:
http://www.crimestoppers-uk.org/crime-prevention/helping-prevent-crime/scams/postal-delivery-scam
Don't bother; it was all over in 2005
RobF
Well-Known Member
I've been trying to protect my computer from the BADTIMES virus - some details are enclosed below if you're not familiar with this computer virus and it's potential impact...
If you receive an Email with the subject line "Badtimes" delete it IMMEDIATELY, WITHOUT READING it. This is the most dangerous Email virus yet.
Not only will it completely rewrite your hard drive, but it will scramble any disks that are even close to your computer. It also demagnetises the strips on your credit cards. It reprograms your ATM access code, screws up the tracking on your car and uses subspace field harmonics to scratch any CD's you try to play. It will recalibrate your refrigerator's coolness settings so all your ice cream melts and your milk curdles. It will give your ex your new phone number. This virus will mix antifreeze into your fish tank. It will drink all your beer. It will even leave dirty socks on the coffee table when you are expecting company.
It will hide your car keys when you are late for work and interfere with your car radio reception so you hear only static while stuck in traffic. When executed "Badtimes" will give you nightmares about circus midgets. It will replace your shampoo with Nair and deodorant with Fly Spray. It will give you Dutch Elm Disease and Ringworm. If the "Badtimes" message is opened in a Windows 7 environment, it will leave the toilet seat up and leave your hairdryer plugged in dangerously close to a full bathtub.
It will refill your skim milk with whole milk, has been known to disregard 'Open This End' labels and can make you 'Push' a door that says 'Pull' and vice versa. It is insidious and subtle. It is dangerous and terrifying to behold. It is also a rather interesting shade of mauve. These are just a few signs.
You have been warned!
If you receive an Email with the subject line "Badtimes" delete it IMMEDIATELY, WITHOUT READING it. This is the most dangerous Email virus yet.
Not only will it completely rewrite your hard drive, but it will scramble any disks that are even close to your computer. It also demagnetises the strips on your credit cards. It reprograms your ATM access code, screws up the tracking on your car and uses subspace field harmonics to scratch any CD's you try to play. It will recalibrate your refrigerator's coolness settings so all your ice cream melts and your milk curdles. It will give your ex your new phone number. This virus will mix antifreeze into your fish tank. It will drink all your beer. It will even leave dirty socks on the coffee table when you are expecting company.
It will hide your car keys when you are late for work and interfere with your car radio reception so you hear only static while stuck in traffic. When executed "Badtimes" will give you nightmares about circus midgets. It will replace your shampoo with Nair and deodorant with Fly Spray. It will give you Dutch Elm Disease and Ringworm. If the "Badtimes" message is opened in a Windows 7 environment, it will leave the toilet seat up and leave your hairdryer plugged in dangerously close to a full bathtub.
It will refill your skim milk with whole milk, has been known to disregard 'Open This End' labels and can make you 'Push' a door that says 'Pull' and vice versa. It is insidious and subtle. It is dangerous and terrifying to behold. It is also a rather interesting shade of mauve. These are just a few signs.
You have been warned!
sailorman
Well-Known Member
Join the Club
the toss ers will be along soon
Bad Times is a computer virus hoax sent out by e-mail. This "virus" does not actually exist, and the "warning" is meant to parody the alarmist message that spread the hoax of the Goodtimes virus. Like the "Goodtimes" hoax, the message warns of the horrible consequences that the virus can inflict; however, unlike "Goodtimes", where all of the consequences might have sounded plausible to people unfamiliar with computers, many of the claims made for the "Badtimes" virus are utterly implausible, such as that the virus "will drink all your good beer" and "will leave dirty socks on the coffee table when you are expecting company."
It is debatable whether the "Badtimes" message can be classed as a "hoax", since the intent seems to be to make the claims ludicrous enough to not fool anyone. However, Sophos' page on "Badtimes" classifies it under hoaxes and claims "... some users are still concerned by the message and we recommend you do not forward it to friends and colleagues."
The parody even inspired a musical version, by the group Laika, where the female lyricist recites the contents of one of the versions of the virus.
jbweston
Well-Known Member
Best to follow a simple rule: Never pass on virus warnings or take any notice of them.
Also teach it to your children and their children unto the seventh generation.
All of these so-called warnings are time wasting hoaxes. The only exceptions are when people contact me by phone or in person to say they have actually had a virus or worm that has been spraying infected emails round their contacts.
The chances of any ordinary human being quicker and more accurate than your bog standard virus checker is nil.
If you do like to read the spurious chain letter warnings, the two give-aways are the request to pass the warning on to all your contacts, and the claim that IBM / Microsoft / The Pope say it is the worst virus they have experienced and that there is no cure for it.
Also teach it to your children and their children unto the seventh generation.
All of these so-called warnings are time wasting hoaxes. The only exceptions are when people contact me by phone or in person to say they have actually had a virus or worm that has been spraying infected emails round their contacts.
The chances of any ordinary human being quicker and more accurate than your bog standard virus checker is nil.
If you do like to read the spurious chain letter warnings, the two give-aways are the request to pass the warning on to all your contacts, and the claim that IBM / Microsoft / The Pope say it is the worst virus they have experienced and that there is no cure for it.
Ex-SolentBoy
Well-Known Member
Here are the basic rules:-
I guess number four is more of a guideline than a rule.
- Never open an email unless you recognise the sender and the topic
- Never open any attachments from anyone unless you know the sender, know the topic, and have virus checked the attachment
- Never forward virus warnings
- Never discuss time wasting stuff like this on forums.
I guess number four is more of a guideline than a rule.
Bilgediver
Well-Known Member
This misses out the biggest sources of these hoaxes and each and every one of them seems to think they are doing the world a favour......
Almost without exception all the ones I receive come from single ladies of an uncertain age and new to computing..... Might sound sexist but then maybe truth is stranger than fiction
