phone virus?

[Lester]

probably a crock, but in the interests of public safety:

Very Important Mobile Information
> > If you receive a phone call and your mobile phone displays ACE-? on the
> screen DON'T ANSWER THIS CALL - END THE CALL IMMEDIATELY. IF YOU ANSWER
> THE
> CALL, YOUR PHONE WILL BE INFECTED BY THIS VIRUS.
> > This virus will erase all IMEI and IMSI information from both your
phone
> and your SIM card, which will make your phone unable to connect with the
> telephone network.
> > You will have to buy a new phone. This information has been confirmed
by
> both Motorola and Nokia. There are over 3 million mobile phones being
> infected by this virus in USA now.
> > You can also check this news in the CNN web site.
> > Please forward this piece of information to all your friends


"friends" heh.

 

[Will]

Load of shite.

Edit :// Link

 

[Ch3tan]

Buy a new phone because the data has been erased? What a load of bullshite.

 

[prime1]

wow, what an effective and powerful hoax. Il make sure to remember that it is a hoax, when i next receive a call from acd-? or whatever it is.

 

[Lester]

There's no need to be sarcastic. I didn't write the bastard.

 

[prime1]

wasnt havin a go at u, just comenting on what a pointless hoax it is, all people have to do is "not answer a call, that they will never get anyway".

 

[danger]

Warning there is a virus going round known as fakeicus gheyicus
once it infects you it will cause nausia, possibly causing you to drop your phone in, for example a nearby lake and causing it to stop working..... If someone showing symptoms including perfuse sweating approaches you be sure to cunt them before they breath on you... a ferm fuck off may also work... if they breath on you... you will be infected!

jeez some people are so stupid (not a dig at u lest!).... I actually punched one of my friends for being gh3y enough to forward a "forward this to everyone or ur hotmail account will be deleted and you will catch aids."

heh I hate shit like this... it exposes some peoples retardedness in the first place for starting the thing and also exposes the ignorance of those who believe it .... I'd rather go on in my fantasy world where fucktards and idiots don't exist.

</rant>

 

[Will]

Our IT department have forwarded this one on to our entire company on more than one occasion. These hoaxes are virus as far as I am concerned.

 

[Yakkob]

Originally posted by Itcheh
These hoaxes are virus as far as I am concerned.

Very very true..

The friendsgreetings one is fookin pants too, as you can't exactly describe it as a virus.

 

[prime1]

There are some seriosuly lazy virus writers out here, theres a very common email that goes round, asking people to check their hard disk for a certain file (something like msjvc.exe or something). Telling them how to find the file using the find option in the start menu, and then telling them to delete it.

It says that current virus checkers cant detect it.

Explaining that its a time delay virus and will "go off" soon. That it automatically forwards itself to everyone on your mailing list, so you have to send a mail to them telling them to do the same.

So people send the mail with the "this is true i found the file!" type warnings on their mail.

The file is a key windows sytem file and wont work without it. Its amazing that people fall for it (current virus checkers cant detect it, but the find file option does??!!? etc). A know a guy who works in web support who fell for it. idiot.

This post had a prupose but ive forgotten it now. sorry.

 

[Gumbo]

yup there was the teddy bear one in the summer, where you had to delete the file who's icon in windows is a teddy bear.

Amazing how many people fell for it.

So many idiots, so little time.

 

[Will]

Actually that one wasn't an essential file, but some Java debug thing. Still, it was very similar to the Irish virus I received (please delete all your files after forwarding this to all your friends).

 

[Trem]

Originally posted by ^Danger

I actually punched one of my friends for being gh3y enough to forward a "forward this to everyone or ur hotmail account will be deleted and you will catch aids."

Hmmm Valium, punching friends...............are you my brother??

 

[*Kornholio*]

If you're worried about virii, go here - this one's my favourite :

BADTIMES VIRUS
If you receive an email entitled "Badtimes," delete it immediately. Do not open it. Apparently this one is pretty nasty. It will not only erase everything on your hard drive, but it will also delete anything on disks within 20 feet of your computer. It demagnetizes the stripes on ALL of your credit cards. It reprograms your ATM access code, screws up the tracking onyour VCR and uses subspace field harmonics to scratch any CD's you attempt to play. It will re-calibrate your refrigerator's coolness settings so all your ice cream melts and your milk curdles.

It will program your phone autodial to call only your mother-in-law's number. This virus will mix antifreeze into your fish tank. It will drink all your favorite beer. It will leave dirty socks on the coffee table when you are expecting company. Its radioactive emissions will cause your toe jam and bellybutton fuzz to migrate behind your ears. It will replace your shampoo with Nair and your Nair with Rogaine, all while dating your current boy/girlfriend behind your back and billing their restaurant rendezvous to your Visa card. It will cause you to run with scissors and throw things in away that is only fun until someone loses an eye.

It will rewrite your backup files, changing all your active verbs to passivetense and incorporating undetectable misspellings which grossly change the interpretations of key sentences. If the "Badtimes" message is opened in a& Windows95 environment, it will leave the toilet seat up and leave your hair dryer plugged in dangerously close to a full bathtub. It will not only
remove the forbidden tags from your mattresses and pillows, but it will also refill your skim milk with whole milk. It will replace all your luncheon meat with Spam. It will molecularly rearrange your cologne or perfume, causing it to smell like dill pickles.

It is insidious and subtle. It is dangerous and terrifying to behold. It is also a rather interesting shade of mauve.These are just a few signs of infection.

PLEASE FORWARD THIS MESSAGE TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW!!!

 

[stu]

The reason shit like this propagates is because thick mongos who really should know better mindlessly forward it on without 1) engaging their brain to assess the probability of what's being said 2) spending 30 seconds looking it up to find out if it's legit. "Social engineering" viruses (virii?) are just as destructive as the real thing.