Text only virus
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Text only virus: Some time ago I received a joke by e-mail
about a lazy virus that asked the user to forward the e-mail to all
his friends and delete it’s entire hard disk afterwards.
Today I received this e-mail, claiming that the person that sent
the e-mail had a virus and was checking if any of his contacts got
infected too. The e-mail had some simple instructions for the
receiver:
Text only virus: Some time ago I received a joke by e-mail
about a lazy virus that asked the user to forward the e-mail to all
his friends and delete it’s entire hard disk afterwards.
Today I received this e-mail, claiming that the person that sent
the e-mail had a virus and was checking if any of his contacts got
infected too. The e-mail had some simple instructions for the
receiver:
- Find a particular file (a Windows system file).
- Delete that file.
- If the file existed then forward the e-mail to all your
contacts so they can check if they have the virus.
And there you have it, a text only virus!!! And the most
amazing thing is that given the amount of e-mails of this type I
received today it works better than real virus.
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ed says:
i once received a similar email. fantastic social engineering,
ain’t it?