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Mouse

10-10-2002 08:04 AM

This must be the most serious ever. It's called Win32Irish and apparently is 100% destructive. Here is the payload.

Dear Receiver

You have just received an Irish virus.

This is a MANUAL virus.

Please delete all the files on your hard disk yourself and send this mail to
everyone you know - that'll be grand.

Paddy O'Hacker

If I was you, I start rushing about like a mad thing updating virus scanners and generally panicking [img]graemlins/biglaugh.gif[/img]

WillowIX

10-10-2002 08:12 AM

rotflmao!!! So that´s what caused my other drive to collapse. I should have known [img]graemlins/laugh2.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/laugh2.gif[/img]

/)eathKiller

10-10-2002 08:21 AM

Holy Hearts Stars an HorseShoes! That virus sounds like a knick of a knacker! [img]tongue.gif[/img]

LennonCook

10-10-2002 08:24 AM

<font color="lightblue">And apparently there IS a virus like this, and people HAVE fallen for it [img]graemlins/saywhat.gif[/img] </font>

andrewas

10-10-2002 08:36 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by LennonCook:
<font color="lightblue">And apparently there IS a virus like this, and people HAVE fallen for it [img]graemlins/saywhat.gif[/img] </font>

Its a hoax email actualy, Ill look it up.
This is the one I mentioned to lennon:

http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/HBMalCode.shtml#jdbgmgr

johnny

10-10-2002 10:43 AM

Talk about the luck of the Irish, thanks for the warning Mouse.

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