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General Category => Technology and Programming => Topic started by: Aten on September 09, 2008, 03:13:08 am
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Ok at work I got this email saying something like "dont open a email titled postcard from bejing" but I dismissed it as a chain letter or whatever, but today I got the same email from my ISP. Since I don't think ISP's will be sending chain letters lol, anyone else heard bout this?
Supposedly it "burns" your hard drive. Is that even possible? (it could be but I'm too dump to know)
Sorry if this is a horrible topic :sweat:
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it's your boss getting a blowjob.
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suc k my dick
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dont open you emale it dangerous to a babby
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blow up computer (die herd 4)
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We have a forum (http://www.gamingw.net/forums/index.php?board=158.0) for this.
No, e-mails are normally harmless when they're being displayed in your reader, unless there's been announcement of that reader having been compromised somehow (which is VERY VERY rare, and I don't think it's ever happened in recent years). If your mail program's vendor's site doesn't show anything, there should be no harm.
E-mail is just text, after all, and I don't know of a single mail client that automatically opens potentially harmful attachments.
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science jsut exploeded my face!
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BILL gates the foundr of microsoft wants to give away hisfortuen to all men! JUST send these message ot fifty people and microsoft will send you fifty dollars in the mail
ps if you dont uyo'll have two weeks of BAD LUCk and your crush will get it on with ur best freind!
Any truth to this? :hmm: It seems pretty legit...
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Yeah those devils at seagate, packaging napalm with their hard disk drives. You'd never have guessed it...
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Supposedly it "burns" your hard drive. Is that even possible? (it could be but I'm too dump to know)
Only one way to find out... dump ass
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yeah I know a virus can't do that, but you know, I thought what if like, the virus made like the hard disk spin at like, super fast speeds or something, (isn't 7200rpm the default?).
Oh well, thanks anyway.
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yeah I know a virus can't do that, but you know, I thought what if like, the virus made like the hard disk spin at like, super fast speeds or something, (isn't 7200rpm the default?).
Trust me, that's impossible. It's like programming a virus that makes your oven go to 6000 degrees centigrade: impossible.
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I remember, way back in dos days, there was a virus that made your HDD quickly read from the very first and the very last sector of the hard drive repeatedly to try to wear it out.
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I guess thats where I maybe I heard it and it stuck to me? I dunno, but that explains it haha.
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guys it's true don't open this email DO NOT OPEN THIS EMAIL my hard disk is on fire right now as we speak i just had to warn you quickly i don't hjave much--
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You're talking about the so-called killer poke (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_poke), which is no longer relevant today.
This is also interesting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halt_and_Catch_Fire
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i never received this kind of email~~~~~
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I am very glad to hear this.
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