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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: nick v6 on 05 August 2009, 04:31:04
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IMPORTANT!!!!! READ IMMEDIATELY AND PASS ON TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW Someone is sending out a very cute screensaver of the Budweiser Frogs. If you download it, you will lose everything! Your hard drive will crash and someone from the Internet will get your screen name and password! DO NOT DOWNLOAD IT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES! It just went into circulation yesterday. Please distribute this message.
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Thanks Nick :y :y :y :y :y
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Thanks for the heads up mate but I think it is a hoax :y
http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/budfrogs.asp
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I think this was one of the first ever hoaxes was it not?
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i had it mailed to me last night so i thought i would pass it on
even tho the old
bud - wise - errrrrrrrrrrrrrr
is dead and gone now
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVcbasIb8lQ[/media]
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It's better you give us a head up, if you hadn't & it wasn't a hoax. Thanx Nick :y
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The clue is in the wording - "Pass it on" - hoax mate :y
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The clue is in the wording - "Pass it on" - hoax mate :y
normaly get those crap 1's saying pass it on to x amount of friends and you get good luck
them things do my head in >:(
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Normal signs of hoax are wording like "pass on to everyone you know" and big firms "Microsoft/IBM/Apple/HP say there is no cure" and "it will wipe your hard disk"
It is purely a scam, like all chain letters, to retrieve information for the bad guys - in this case, they want your valuable email address...
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Normal signs of hoax are wording like "pass on to everyone you know" and big firms "Microsoft/IBM/Apple/HP say there is no cure" and "it will wipe your hard disk"
It is purely a scam, like all chain letters, to retrieve information for the bad guys - in this case, they want your valuable email address...
they aint got mine
it was sent to me by a mate who recived it he just copied and pasted it on msn
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Normal signs of hoax are wording like "pass on to everyone you know" and big firms "Microsoft/IBM/Apple/HP say there is no cure" and "it will wipe your hard disk"
It is purely a scam, like all chain letters, to retrieve information for the bad guys - in this case, they want your valuable email address...
they aint got mine
it was sent to me by a mate who recived it he just copied and pasted it on msn
But they will get his, and most of his mates, and all the mates of his, and all their mates, and all their mates and so on.
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Why does everybody fall for these everytime :D :D
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Why does everybody fall for these everytime :D :D
What annoys me is the presumption that I don't know how to manage my own security. At the same time, my email address is usually in the 'To' field being distributed to all manner of people that I neither know or wish to know.
I got one from a Company Director of a firm I was working for and it had a link supposedly supporting the scare. When I clicked on the link it was a responsible site that dismissed the item as a scam, and an old one at that. Clearly this person had not even clicked the link before passing it on to all and sundry.
IF people feel compelled to pass on such warnings, they should "BC" (Blind Copy) all the friends they want to lose rather than "To" or "CC" them.
Rant probably not over! ;D
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IMPORTANT!!!!! READ IMMEDIATELY AND PASS ON TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW Someone is sending out a very cute screensaver of the Budweiser Frogs. If you download it, you will lose everything! Your hard drive will crash and someone from the Internet will get your screen name and password! DO NOT DOWNLOAD IT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES! It just went into circulation yesterday. Please distribute this message.
1) Unless it decided to remove itself from the 4 screws holding it secure, and for the 4 or however many discs inside the hard drive decide to rip apart and crash against the case its physical impossibility.
2) WTF?
Who actually belives this shite? If its an e-mail with lots of nice images and such, its most probably a phishing scam, with some code in the background of the mail to get your e-mail adress and send it back to the orginal source.
If do get the above, do not send it to anyone.
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IMPORTANT!!!!! READ IMMEDIATELY AND PASS ON TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW Someone is sending out a very cute screensaver of the Budweiser Frogs. If you download it, you will lose everything! Your hard drive will crash and someone from the Internet will get your screen name and password! DO NOT DOWNLOAD IT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES! It just went into circulation yesterday. Please distribute this message.
1) Unless it decided to remove itself from the 4 screws holding it secure, and for the 4 or however many discs inside the hard drive decide to rip apart and crash against the case its physical impossibility.
2) WTF?
Who actually belives this shite? If its an e-mail with lots of nice images and such, its most probably a phishing scam, with some code in the background of the mail to get your e-mail adress and send it back to the orginal source.
If do get the above, do not send it to anyone.
Many people do believe these things are true. They are mainly people who are not as computer 'savy' as us. My Dad is one for a start ;D ;D :y
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IMPORTANT!!!!! READ IMMEDIATELY AND PASS ON TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW Someone is sending out a very cute screensaver of the Budweiser Frogs. If you download it, you will lose everything! Your hard drive will crash and someone from the Internet will get your screen name and password! DO NOT DOWNLOAD IT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES! It just went into circulation yesterday. Please distribute this message.
1) Unless it decided to remove itself from the 4 screws holding it secure, and for the 4 or however many discs inside the hard drive decide to rip apart and crash against the case its physical impossibility.
2) WTF?
Who actually belives this shite? If its an e-mail with lots of nice images and such, its most probably a phishing scam, with some code in the background of the mail to get your e-mail adress and send it back to the orginal source.
If do get the above, do not send it to anyone.
Many people do believe these things are true. They are mainly people who are not as computer 'savy' as us. My Dad is one for a start ;D ;D :y
I have a pet hate for these e-mail chains, if someone stopped you in Tesco, and said there is a new virus out. SwanFlu, it causes you to go green and then get your credit card number. Would you belive them? No!
So don't belive all these stupid e-mails, like that post office guy who got conned for £130,000 from some bloke in Africa pretending to be a pregant women. If your that stupid you deserve it!
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just a note has well here was on an emailing sight an my internet was take over with what looked like a scanner is changed the browser i was on to the scanner an it showed i'd hundreds of trojans ::) it looked very professional has it said it was microsoft anti-virus or something to that affect it wanted me to download its protection but i check this pc on a regular basics so i didn't download an it comstantly prompted me to download, i finally done viruses an spyware scans an behold it was a hoax trojan alert but looked very professional. Just thought i'd let people know cause it was probably a worm/trojan that i would have downloaded if i had of listened. lucky for me i never listen :y
;D ;D
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IMPORTANT!!!!! READ IMMEDIATELY AND PASS ON TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW Someone is sending out a very cute screensaver of the Budweiser Frogs. If you download it, you will lose everything! Your hard drive will crash and someone from the Internet will get your screen name and password! DO NOT DOWNLOAD IT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES! It just went into circulation yesterday. Please distribute this message.
1) Unless it decided to remove itself from the 4 screws holding it secure, and for the 4 or however many discs inside the hard drive decide to rip apart and crash against the case its physical impossibility.
2) WTF?
Who actually belives this shite? If its an e-mail with lots of nice images and such, its most probably a phishing scam, with some code in the background of the mail to get your e-mail adress and send it back to the orginal source.
If do get the above, do not send it to anyone.
I can show you a HDD crash if you like. You supply the disk, I'll supply Sammy Percy Pickaxe
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IMPORTANT!!!!! READ IMMEDIATELY AND PASS ON TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW Someone is sending out a very cute screensaver of the Budweiser Frogs. If you download it, you will lose everything! Your hard drive will crash and someone from the Internet will get your screen name and password! DO NOT DOWNLOAD IT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES! It just went into circulation yesterday. Please distribute this message.
1) Unless it decided to remove itself from the 4 screws holding it secure, and for the 4 or however many discs inside the hard drive decide to rip apart and crash against the case its physical impossibility.
2) WTF?
Who actually belives this shite? If its an e-mail with lots of nice images and such, its most probably a phishing scam, with some code in the background of the mail to get your e-mail adress and send it back to the orginal source.
If do get the above, do not send it to anyone.
I can show you a HDD crash if you like. You supply the disk, I'll supply Sammy Percy Pickaxe
awww can't you use sammy please ;D ;D
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IMPORTANT!!!!! READ IMMEDIATELY AND PASS ON TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW Someone is sending out a very cute screensaver of the Budweiser Frogs. If you download it, you will lose everything! Your hard drive will crash and someone from the Internet will get your screen name and password! DO NOT DOWNLOAD IT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES! It just went into circulation yesterday. Please distribute this message.
1) Unless it decided to remove itself from the 4 screws holding it secure, and for the 4 or however many discs inside the hard drive decide to rip apart and crash against the case its physical impossibility.
2) WTF?
Who actually belives this shite? If its an e-mail with lots of nice images and such, its most probably a phishing scam, with some code in the background of the mail to get your e-mail adress and send it back to the orginal source.
If do get the above, do not send it to anyone.
There was once a home computer that could be set on fire by software. I think the o/s had control over the vdu scans or something and you could fry some transistors (I don't think it was valves! ;D) if you 'poked' the wrong address.
Mis-use of computer terminology and poor English Language skills often expose scam emails. Trouble is, you need to know English Language to recognise it.
I had a client who used to refer to 'booting WordPerfect' when he meant 'running' or 'executing' or 'starting' even.
Hard disk drives do have crashes but they are not programmable. It's when a foreign body (yeah, yeah!) gets between a head and the platter. Likened by some to a jumbo jet meeting a skyscraper. But I haven't heard that analogy for, oh, about 8 years now.
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IMPORTANT!!!!! READ IMMEDIATELY AND PASS ON TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW Someone is sending out a very cute screensaver of the Budweiser Frogs. If you download it, you will lose everything! Your hard drive will crash and someone from the Internet will get your screen name and password! DO NOT DOWNLOAD IT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES! It just went into circulation yesterday. Please distribute this message.
1) Unless it decided to remove itself from the 4 screws holding it secure, and for the 4 or however many discs inside the hard drive decide to rip apart and crash against the case its physical impossibility.
2) WTF?
Who actually belives this shite? If its an e-mail with lots of nice images and such, its most probably a phishing scam, with some code in the background of the mail to get your e-mail adress and send it back to the orginal source.
If do get the above, do not send it to anyone.
I can show you a HDD crash if you like. You supply the disk, I'll supply Sammy Percy Pickaxe
had one here last week, power removed during a write operation :'(
and seen many big ones at work (old 12" platters!) when they go you hear it over most the building!
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I prefer proper Budweiser from Budweis