DeTomaso Mailing List: March 98, Message #184
     



From: 	Mike Trusty <miketrusty@email.msn.com>

Subject: "Bad Times" Virus (No Pantera Content)

Date: 	Wed, 4 Mar 1998 17:56:09 +0000



Sent this last week and did not see it come back.  Sorry if it is a duplicate.



I know how sensitive people can be about these viruses, so beware!!!!!!!!!

>

>

> If you receive an e-mail with a subject line with

> "Badtimes" delete it immediately WITHOUT

> reading it.  This is the most dangerous Email virus

> yet.

>

> It will re-write your hard drive.  Not only that, but it

> will scramble any disks that are even close to your

> computer.  It will recalibrate your refrigerator's

> coolness setting so all your ice cream melts and

> the milk curdles.  It will demagnetize the strips on

> all your credit cards, reprogram your ATM access

> code, screw up the tracking on your VCR and use

> subspace field harmonics to scratch any CDs you

> try to play.

>

> It will give your ex-boy/girlfriend your new phone

> number.  It will mix antifreeze into your fish tank.  It

> will drink all your beer and leave its dirty socks on

> the coffee table when there's company coming

> over.  It will hide your car keys when you are late

> for work and interfere with the car radio so that

> you hear only static while stuck in traffic.

>

> Badtimes will make you fall in love with a hardened

> pedophile.  It will give you nightmares about circus

> midgets.  It will replace your shampoo with Nair

> and your Nair with Rogaine, all while dating your

> current boy/girlfriend behind your back and billing

> their hotel rendezvous to your Visa card.

>

> Badtimes will give you Dutch Elm disease.  It will

> leave the toilet seat up and leave the hairdryer

> plugged in dangerously close to a full bathtub.  It

> will remove the forbidden tags from your

> mattresses and pillows, and refill your skim milk

> with whole.  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.

> Be very, very afraid.