On Thursday, May 31, 2001, at 06:38 AM, William Silvert wrote:
> this is so
> much like the standard procedure for cleansing many viruses that I
> suspect
> that some people would be taken in by it.
It's taking a lot of people. A good friend of mine got nailed because he
was warned by a good friend of his that he'd been using as resident
computer expert for the last decade...
it's an interesting hack. If it doesn't teach peopel to check first,
nothing will. I'm betting on nothing...
> If hoaxes of this sort become
> widespread, and not well-publicised, they are legitimate grounds for
> postings.
>
define "well publicised". This is, I think, 2-3 weeks old. It's now in
all the hoax databases, and I believe news.com covered it yesterday,
about the time I found out about my friend's falling for it (because it
ended up on the mailing list run about him, which led to the standard
discussions...)
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