From: Bob <bob AT xnet DOT com>
Subject: Re: Internet Virus Alert
To: mat AT ardi DOT com (Mat Hostetter)
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 1995 06:45:10 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: BILLC AT teleng1 DOT tait DOT co DOT nz, djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

> 
> >>>>> "Bill" == Bill Currie <BILLC AT teleng1 DOT tait DOT co DOT nz> writes:
> 
> >>If the program is not stopped, the computer's processor will be placed in
> >>an nth-complexity infinite binary loop - which can severely damage the
> >>processor if left running that way too long.
> 
> Gee, THAT doesn't sound like a flamingly obvious hoax or anything.
> Ah, how quickly people forget that April 1 wasn't long ago... :-)
> 

kinda reminds me of that JPG [or was it GIF] virus of last april first?  i
still see messages occasionally about that.  that alert was actually dated
april 1st.

it's amazing how a simple hand-placed timestamp of 12/4/94 suddenly makes
this prank easier to believe.  'course i'd think that if this had been released
more recently than 4/1/95 i'd have heard of it by now via one of my 10 or so
lists of 30-40 newsgroups read regularly.

:)

bob
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