Thom@s From Norway, joined Oct 2000, 11949 posts, RR: 50 Posted (12 years 1 month 1 week 4 days 17 hours ago) and read 831 times:
Hi.
I guess most of you will remember what happened Thursday April 26th 1986. Hint; Tsjernobyl.
Naturally, some guy(s) decided they'd mark this special day, by putting a virus all over the web. I haven't seen it because I decided not to surf on that date.
So a few questions:
1. What exactly is this virus, and what does it do?
2. Is it risky to connect to the internet on that day?
3. Would you risk it?
Thom@s
"If guns don't kill people, people kill people - does that mean toasters don't toast toast, toast toast toast?"
Iflycoach From United States of America, joined Aug 2000, 1015 posts, RR: 2 Reply 2, posted (12 years 1 month 1 week 4 days 16 hours ago) and read 792 times:
I just set my computer clock ahead a day so it's the 27th and when it really gets to the 27th I just keep it there.
Ikarus From United Kingdom, joined Jan 2001, 3524 posts, RR: 2 Reply 3, posted (12 years 1 month 1 week 4 days 16 hours ago) and read 790 times:
There's numerous viruses for every single day - Friday the 13th viruses, Christmas viruses, Easter viruses... I don't think this one is any more dangerous.... so yes! I will be surfing on every single day of the year, as always!
Singapore_Air From United Kingdom, joined Nov 2000, 13711 posts, RR: 21 Reply 4, posted (12 years 1 month 1 week 4 days 16 hours ago) and read 786 times:
I WONT!
NOT after what happenned last year!!!!
Bloody hell!
Destroyed my whole C Drive!
Had to pay $70 to some guy to fix it!
Bloddy Chernwhatshisface!
Bombstar From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 6, posted (12 years 1 month 1 week 4 days 16 hours ago) and read 785 times:
Last year i and a bunch of my friends experienced probelsm relating to the chernobyl virus. We will be more cautious this year and set the date to April 27 (to skip the day) I was never paranoid about viruses until last year. April 26 marks a lot of bad things that have happened in the past, not just the chernobyl incident, my friends house burned down last year on that day.
Thom@s From Norway, joined Oct 2000, 11949 posts, RR: 50 Reply 7, posted (12 years 1 month 1 week 4 days 13 hours ago) and read 751 times:
Huh, So it aint that dangerous as I allways thought? Good.
However, the "I Love You" Virus was some serious trouble. Fortunatly, we didn't get it.
On the other hand, I did get a mail from someone with an adress starting with Jennifer something. The topic was; "I didn't know webpages like this was legal.Have a look." First of all I don't know anyone called Jennifer, secondly I had to enter my e-mail adress to this page to enter. Just to be safe, I deleted the entire mail.
Did anyone else get it?
Thom@s
"If guns don't kill people, people kill people - does that mean toasters don't toast toast, toast toast toast?"
Iflycoach From United States of America, joined Aug 2000, 1015 posts, RR: 2 Reply 8, posted (12 years 1 month 1 week 4 days 13 hours ago) and read 743 times:
Bombstar From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 9, posted (12 years 1 month 1 week 4 days 8 hours ago) and read 722 times:
umm....the "I love you" virus corrupts certain files. While CIH on the otherhand erases your whole hard drive and renders your BIOS useless, i think CIH would prove to be much more dangerous in comparison
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