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« on: 05 August 2009, 04:31:04 »
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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« Reply #1 on: 05 August 2009, 05:37:33 »
Thanks Nick :y :y :y :y :y
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Re: virus warning
« Reply #2 on: 05 August 2009, 07:43:50 »
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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Re: virus warning
« Reply #3 on: 05 August 2009, 07:54:32 »
I think this was one of the first ever hoaxes was it not?
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« Reply #4 on: 05 August 2009, 07:56:53 »
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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« Reply #5 on: 05 August 2009, 08:02:01 »
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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Re: virus warning
« Reply #6 on: 05 August 2009, 08:32:27 »
The clue is in the wording - "Pass it on" - hoax mate :y
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« Reply #7 on: 05 August 2009, 08:38:00 »
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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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Re: virus warning
« Reply #8 on: 05 August 2009, 08:42:51 »
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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Re: virus warning
« Reply #9 on: 05 August 2009, 08:46:51 »
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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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Re: virus warning
« Reply #10 on: 05 August 2009, 08:53:09 »
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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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« Reply #11 on: 05 August 2009, 13:16:32 »
Why does everybody fall for these everytime :D :D
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Re: virus warning
« Reply #12 on: 05 August 2009, 13:45:14 »
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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.

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Re: virus warning
« Reply #13 on: 05 August 2009, 14:57:49 »
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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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Re: virus warning
« Reply #14 on: 05 August 2009, 15:05:35 »
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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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