| This hoax appears to have been written as a joke, sending up the tone of other virus hoaxes. However, some users are still concerned by the message and we recommend you do not forward it to friends and colleagues. The text of the hoax reads as follows: If you receive an email entitled "Bedtimes" 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 strips on ALL of your credit cards. It reprograms your ATM access code, screws up the tracking on your VCR and uses subspace field harmonics to scratch any CD's you attempt to play. It will program your phone auto dial to call only 900 numbers. This virus will mix antifreeze into your fish tank.
IT WILL CAUSE YOUR TOILET TO FLUSH WHILE YOU ARE SHOWERING.
It will drink ALL your beer. FOR GOD'S SAKE, ARE YOU LISTENING??
It will leave dirty underwear on the coffee table when you are expecting company. It will replace your shampoo with Nair and your Nair with Rogaine.
If the "Bedtimes" message is opened in a Windows 95/98 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, it will also refill your Skim milk with whole milk.
******* WARN AS MANY PEOPLE AS YOU CAN. *******
And if you don't send this to 5000 people in 20 seconds, you'll fart so hard that your right leg will spasm and shoot straight out in front of you, sending sparks that will ignite the person nearest you. Send to everyone. |
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Many virus hoaxes:
- falsely claim to describe an extremely dangerous virus
- use pseudo-technical language to make impressive-sounding (but impossible) claims
- falsely claim that the report was issued or confirmed by a well-known company
- ask you to forward it to all your friends and colleagues
As usual, you are urged not to pass on warnings of this kind, as the
continued re-forwarding of these hoaxes simply wastes time and email
bandwidth.
It is possible that you may receive a hoax via email with a file attached.
Obviously, such file attachments should be treated with caution as they may be
virus infected. Sophos recommends deleting virus hoax emails, whether they
contain file attachments or not.
Sophos suggests a policy to help prevent
hoaxes from spreading in your company.
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