>Subject: Virus or Hoax ?
>Berfore i get more "You are an Idiot" or "Fuckoff loser" mails i will
>set something straight.
>I dont want to offend people but i got it from a trustable source
I dunno if this is a virus or a hoax... The way I see it is this:
IF it is a hoax and it's reported as a virus, SO WHAT? Paranoia is not
necessarily a bad thing.
On the other hand, there are undoubtably messages with the specified
subject out there which are viruses. e-Mail has an amazing way of
masquerading itself with ANY subject, so while I appreciate reports of
viruses, it seems to me that a report of an email virus, when the report
creates a wariness based on a specific factor of the email which could
EASILY change at any given time, is a bit futile. Are the people who
post these warnings going to release a new one EVERY time some
einstonian freak hacker changes the message subject? I think not.
When I got the first message, a warning, it was obviously with good
intention, and I appreciate this (however, I do ask that you curb virus
warnings to me, unless they are real viruses that don't become entirely
different with the press of 3 or 4 keys by some insane moron out
there)... Oh yeah, and correct the spelling of my name in your address
book - it's Pharkus not Pharkas.
The second message accused the first message of being a hoax? C'mon
people! Not only is a warning of an email virus a waste of time, but so
is declaring such things a hoax! Can any of you guarantee that if I get
a message with the subject in question, it is a virus? Didn't think so.
Can any of you guarantee that it ISN'T? Of course not! Stop wasting my
time!
I don't even remember what the third message was..
The fourth message is a natural response apparently almost as enraged as
I am, but for a different reason, and DEFENDING the theory that warning
people of a variable virus is useful... grr...
What I do know for sure about this is that, to date, I have received
four e-mails for one useless warning. One was good, two was pushing it,
three and four are just plain offensive. Every day I zoom into Hotmail
expecting e-mail about varying electronic projects I am doing, some of
which I have the potential to make money from. Every time I see that I
have new mail and wait for my massive INBOX to load, and EVERY time it's
another extension to the damn e-mail virus saga. Give me a damn break!
Disgruntl- er... uhh... oh yeah.
Pharkus.
... If all else fails, throw another megadolt across it!
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