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Anyone's got a good virus-story? Good or bad, come share it!
One that comes to mind is the one about an (anonymous) friend of mine, who wasn't exactly a computer-expert. Furthermore, she wasn't quite sure what that whole computer-virus-thingy was all about, anyway.
It's some years back and, as far as I remember, it was the CodeRed virus which hit her computer one fateful night. When the virus activated, she got so scared, that she shut down her computer (good idea), locked the doors (hmm....) and turned off the lights (huh?). Then she called me.
She told me about her... precautions, and when I asked her the rather obvious question of "why?" she replied "Well, what if they are coming?"
Of course, today we laugh about it, but rest assured that there was absolutely nothing funny about it that night. She was scared - real scared. In my book that goes to show what a destructive construction a computer-viruses really is - it's not just about data- or money-loss. No one should take pride in creating such a thing. And rest assured that, should my friend meet the virus-author some day, she's gonna kick his sorry a**
Theis Søndergaard, CTO, Co-founder | BullGuard Ltd.
"Us? Aliens? Is this one of your Earth-jokes?" Post Edited (Theis Søndergaard) : 3/1/2004 10:52:50 PM GMT | 
ahhhhhhhhh I did say this to late I don`t no of the story is a god one but I did open a new tropic onder the name norton anti virus
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