is your anti-virus software up to date?
My girlfriend’s computer got a virus. She thinks it was from a popular VOIP client that rhymes with “ripe”. I gotta say that that sucks. So she spent an hour or so trying to uninstall the program, but she’s getting weird error messages and it’s just frustrating her, so she said “screw this” and shut the computer off for now.
Okay. So now I’m online doing research and trying to find out what the virus is and how to combat it so that she can get back online and all that. (perfect timing, I suppose, as she just bought an iPhone last night) In my search, I’ve been finding all the standard BS sites that are just trying to sell something, but then I came across the winner!
Here’s the full article, but the gist is this: Dude states that there’s a new virus out there and it’s the worst he’s ever seen! (OMIGOD, whatever will we all do?!) He then goes on to say that normal viruses gain personal info from your computer so that the hacker/naughty people can exploit it for their own nefarious purposes. Yes, yes, we all get that. BUT WAIT! He then goes on to say that this new virus actually replicates the DNA of known illnesses such as the flu and ebola and it transmits them over the web!!!
NO SHIT!
My favorite is where he says that he was talking to his sick girlfriend (she’s in the US and he’s in Ireland) and after talking to her online, he then contracts the flu as well! (that sound you’re hearing is the theme to The Twilight Zone)
It actually gets better than that, especially after one reads the comments, but I’ll let you read it for yourself. Where? HERE!
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