Careful New Irish Virus Spreading

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01-May-2004, 09:57 PM

imported_jayp6969

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Careful New Irish Virus Spreading

The following is a sample message:

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Greetings, You have just received the "IRISH VIRUS". As we don't have any programming experience, this Virus works on the honour system. Please delete all the files on your hard drive manually and forward this Virus to everyone on your mailing list. Thank you for your cooperation.

For more info read here

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/ven...irus.hoax.html

01-May-2004, 10:12 PM

imported_zc_hatch

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wtf? thats dumb lol

01-May-2004, 10:18 PM

Gunmetalef

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hahhaa lol thats jokes

01-May-2004, 11:10 PM

Notorious

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Thats pretty funny IMO.

02-May-2004, 01:36 AM

cibs

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you're kidding right? anyone that has enough knowledge on how to delete their entire drive will know that's a hoax....

02-May-2004, 03:07 AM

imported_caloge

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hey at least the guys who mad the "virus" (and i use that term loosley) were honest about it j/k
its pretty dunny considering it does as it says, which is absolutely nothing