Re: ILOVEYOU?????
Jommeke, on host 212.190.0.37
Friday, May 5, 2000, at 04:55:21
Re: ILOVEYOU????? posted by Brunnen-G on Friday, May 5, 2000, at 04:02:28:
> > Scary, that's all i can say about the international email-disaster of yesterday. > > > > Our company was infected too, the secretary who receives all the external emails opened the virus-file (of course), so everyone on the intranet received it as well (and some of them opened it too ...) and our external contacts .... > > > > It proves that today's society is extremely vulnerable! One madman can put the whole world upside-down. Same with other stuff like those school-killings in your country (US). Very scary all.... A fool who has access to the right material can do anything with today's society. > > > > Solution? Only one... a complete "big brother"-society, but that's even more scary .... > > > > > > Jom"maybe-i-should-try-to-live-in-a-cave"meke > > I got it too, but fortunately it didn't do any damage beyond wasting far too much of my time deleting a bazillion stupid incoming emails. I suppose I should be happy to learn I'm in so many people's address books. ;-) > > The *really* scary thing was seeing some random bubblebrained company secretary interviewed on our TV news coverage of the virus. "Oh, I saw we had dozens of these emails coming in, and of course I was suspicious, but I had to open just one of them because, you know, 'ILoveyou' *giggle* I had to just see what it was about, you know?" >
ROTFL, thats hilarious!
Well, the secretary who opened it here at our company also said to the IT-professional who collaborates with our company, that she *accidently* double-clicked on the file, but nobody else in my company knows that she was the main cause of the spreading in the company. I made the link with her but everyone was pointing at the other guy who opened it, so i held my mouth (she is a boss-secretary, meaning she's very close to the big PDG)
> I'm not saying people like this are *bad*, I'm just saying it should be illegal to be stupid. > > Brunnen-"zero tolerance"G
Jom"zero tolerance is a popular word nowadays, also in my country"meke
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