Beware of new virus outbreaks on computers
everywhere, such as...
Oprah Winfrey virus: Your 200MB hard drive
suddenly shrinks to 80MB and then slowly expands back to 200MB.
AT&T virus: Every three minutes it
tells you what great service you are getting.
MCI virus: Every three minutes it reminds
you that you're paying too much for the AT&T virus.
Paul Revere virus: This revolutionary virus
does not horse around. It warns you of impending hard disk attack -- once
if by LAN, twice if by c:>
Politically Correct virus: Never calls
itself a "virus", but instead refers to itself as an "electronic microorganism."
Ross Perot virus: Activates every component
in your system, just before the whole dang thing quits.
Arnold Schwarzenegger virus: Terminates
and stays resident. It'll be back.
Dan Quayle virus: Prevents your system
from spawning any child process without joining into a binary network.
Government Economist virus: Nothing works,
but all your diagnostic software says everything is fine.
New World Order virus: Probably harmless,
but it makes a lot of people really mad just thinking about it.
Federal Bureaucrat virus: Divides your
hard disk into hundreds of little units, each of which does practically
nothing, but all of which claim to be the most important part of your computer.
Gallup virus: Sixty percent of the PCs
infected will lose 38 percent of their data 14 percent of the time (plus
or minus a 3.5 percent margin of error).
Texas virus: Makes sure that it's bigger
than any other file.
Adam and Eve virus: Takes a couple of bytes
out of your Apple.
Congressional virus: The computer locks
up, screen splits erratically with a message appearing on each half blaming
the other side for the problem.
Airline virus: You're in Dallas but your
data is in Singapore.
Freudian virus: Your computer becomes obsessed
with marrying to its own motherboard.
Public Television virus: Your programs
stop every few minutes to ask for money.
Elvis virus: Your computer gets fat, slow
and lazy, then self distructs only to resurface at shopping malls and service
stations across rural America.
Ollie North virus: Causes your printer
to become a paper shredder.
Nike virus: Just does it.
Sears virus: Your data won't appear unless
you buy new cables, power supply and a set of shocks.
Jimmy Hoffa virus: Your programs can never
be found again.
Congressional virus #2: Runs every program
on the hard drive simultaneously, but doesn't allow the user to accomplish
anything.
Imelda Marcos virus: Sings you a song (slightly
off key) on boot up, then subtracts money from your Quicken account and
spends it all on expensive shoes it purchases through Prodigy.
Star Trek virus: Invades your system in
places where no virus has gone before.
Health Care virus: Tests your system for
a day, finds nothing wrong, and sends you a bill for $4,500.
George Bush virus: It starts by boldly
stating "Read my docs...No new files!" on the screen. It proceeds to fill
up all the free space on your hard drive with new files, then blames it
on the Congressional virus.
L.A.P.D. virus: It claims it feels threatened
by the other files on your PC and erases them in "self-defense."
Oral Roberts virus: Claims that if you
don't send it a million dollars, its programmer will take it back.
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