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Aten

#1 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

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Sludgelord

#2 September 09, 2008, 03:14:42 am

Who's the boss? Not you, bitch.
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it's your boss getting a blowjob.

Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden

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Sludgelord

#3 September 09, 2008, 03:23:41 am

Who's the boss? Not you, bitch.
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suc k my dick

Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden

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the bloddy ghost

#4 September 09, 2008, 03:30:43 am

::pulls another Hideo Kojima::
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dont open you emale it dangerous to a babby

has a girl in his bed. pot in his pipe and family guy on the tube. i like life

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baseball19225

#5 September 09, 2008, 06:39:12 am

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blow up computer (die herd 4)

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dada

#6 September 09, 2008, 06:50:00 am

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We have a forum 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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TFT

#7 September 09, 2008, 06:58:58 am

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science jsut exploeded my face!

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im9today

#8 September 09, 2008, 07:26:52 am

off tha hook
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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?

It seems pretty legit...

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Carrion Crow

#9 September 09, 2008, 08:00:00 am

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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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Jayce

#10 September 09, 2008, 09:02:45 am

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Quote from: Gutts on September 09, 2008, 03:13:08 am

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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Aten

#11 September 09, 2008, 09:18:12 pm

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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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dada

#12 September 09, 2008, 09:42:06 pm

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Quote from: Gutts on September 09, 2008, 09:18:12 pm

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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goat

#13 September 11, 2008, 03:38:25 am

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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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Aten

#14 September 12, 2008, 09:20:51 am

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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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local_dunce

#15 September 12, 2008, 11:37:00 am

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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--

now is the winter of our discontent

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dada

#16 September 14, 2008, 08:23:50 pm

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You're talking about the so-called killer poke, which is no longer relevant today.

This is also interesting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halt_and_Catch_Fire

Last Edit: September 14, 2008, 08:26:08 pm by Dada

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noko23

#17 September 24, 2008, 05:48:51 am

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i never received this kind of email~~~~~

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dada

#18 September 24, 2008, 08:22:29 pm

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I am very glad to hear this.

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big ass skelly

#19 September 24, 2008, 08:39:50 pm

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The big M what do you think of gay marriage

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