 HOAX
There is practically no
reason to forward any messages to "as many people as possible". No matter what
the message may claim about the need for sympathy, goodwill, condemnation or
action, if you can't verify that the message is true, its likely that someone is
trying to make a fool of you.
Der findes ingen grund til at
videresende en mail til " Så mange som muligt" uanset hvad mailen
indeholder.
Kan du ikke garantere for indholdets rigtighed, er det bare nogle tumber der
"tager pis på dig"
Du kan finde alt om HOAX på
Copernic og Google. Du har ikke en eneste undskyldning for at sprede shit.
Mange forstår ikke engang engelsk,
men sender aligevel alverdens lort rundt til alle andre!
Mere her!
example:
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"Economic Slow Down in US"
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Description
This is a hoax being spread via email. It has the subject: “Economic Slow Down
in US.” It is warning users that a new virus has been discovered and is
spreading via email. It further claims that this new virus can delete the entire
contents of an infected system’s Drive C when its carrier email is opened.
Trend Micro requests that email users not forward
this email, which is a hoax.
Original Message
Be Careful. There's a new virus which was found recently which will erase the
whole C drive. if u get a mail with the subject "Economic Slow Down in US"
please delete that mail right away. Otherwise it will erase the whole C drive.
As soon as you open it, it says "Your system will restart now..do you want to
continue" . Even if you click on NO, your system will be shut down and will
never boot again. It already caused a major damage in the US and few other parts
of the world. The remedy for this has not yet been discovered. So please forward
this mail to as many people as possible and let everybody be aware of this. Its
better to get this mail 100 times rather than not knowing about it.
"Forward This message to get a free .... !"
Many hoaxes encourage their victims to forward a
message to as many people as possible in order to get a reward for themselves or
on the behalf of some charity. The hoax claims that if enough copies of the
message get sent then something good will happen. Alternatively, some messages
claim that unless enough messages are sent, than something bad will happen.
Popular variants of this are currently centered on The Gap, Disney, Microsoft,
and Bill Gates.
The thing to know is that there is no way for
anyone to count the number of copies of an email in circulation on the
internet, nor to count the number of times something has been forwarded. In
order to actually do this, not only would you have to run a program that would
"open" and examine the contents of many millions of email messages all over the
world, the program would have to trace the path of each message. This would be
an incredible technological challenge with no real return on the investment.
1).Never
open anything INCLUDED, LINKED OR
ATTACHED to an email from someone you don't know. This is
only really a problem for users of Microsoft mail programs like Office, Outlook,
and Exchange, but it's a good habit for everyone. It IS possible to download a
dangerous executable program through e-mail, or through your web browser. For
heaven's sake DON'T RUN A PROGRAM FROM A
SOURCE YOU DON'T HAVE VERY GOOD REASON TO TRUST! If your browser or
e-mail reader does not ask you permission before it runs a downloaded program,
THROW THAT BROWSER OR READER AWAY! It's no more useful than a door to
your house that can't keep anyone out. IS directors, get a clue and demand that
macro and Visual Basic "functionality" be removed from Microsoft mail products!
2). Anyway, there is
NO WAY**
for an email message to infect your computer with a virus just by reading it.
"Viruses" in email require you to open the attachments inside the document. Even
macro worms like Melissa, and "The Love Bug" operate this way. This "mother of
all Junk-mail virus" Has made it into the photocopy room, and is going around
again. Note however, that it IS possible to download an executable program
through e-mail, or through your web browser. For heaven's sake DON'T
RUN A PROGRAM FROM A SOURCE YOU DON'T HAVE VERY GOOD REASON TO TRUST!
If your browser or e-mail reader does not ask you permission before it runs a
downloaded program, THROW THAT BROWSER OR READER AWAY!
It's no more useful than a door to your house that can't keep anyone out.
Microsoft Outlook, and Outlook Express, running on
Microsoft Windows, are the only email programs that are vulnerable to email
worms. To completely protect yourself, use a different email program, like
Netscape Messenger or
Eudora.
If you must use Outlook, then
follow these instructions
to make it safe from Macros and Viruses.
Microsoft, Disney and the GAP are
not giving away stuff for free.
There is no way for anyone to count the number of copies of an email in
circulation on the internet, nor to count the number of times something has been
forwarded. Email systems are like blind, deaf mute postal workers, who process
mail my feel. Furthermore, they are all forbidden to try and communicate with
each other, and even if they didn't, they all dislike each other anyway.
Tracking a message through such a system would be practically impossible.
Many hoaxes encourage their victims to forward a
message to as many people as possible in order to get a reward for themselves or
on the behalf of some charity. The hoax claims that if enough copies of the
message get sent then something good will happen. Alternatively, some messages
claim that unless enough messages are sent, than something bad will happen.
Popular variants of this are currently centered on The Gap, Disney,
IBM, Microsoft, and Bill Gates.
The thing to know is that there is no way for
anyone to count the number of copies of an email in circulation on the
internet, nor to count the number of times something has been forwarded. In
order to actually do this, not only would you have to run a program that would
"open" and examine the contents of many millions of email messages all over the
world, the program would have to trace the path of each message. This would be
an incredible technological challenge with no real return on the investment.
Tsunami Seen From a High-Rise
Snopes says the status of the picture is undetermined, but I'd have a hard time
believing it's real. First of all, is that actually downtown Phuket? I've never
been there, so I couldn't say, but all the pictures of Thailand I've seen show
it being a lot greener... a lot more vegetation. Second, almost every account of
the tsunami I've read said that it didn't look like the classic hollywood image
of a tidal wave towering above the land... which is exactly what this picture
looks like. The wave in this picture is nearly as high as the tallest buildings,
which would make it at least 100 feet high (or even higher). Of course, if this
picture is real, it's pretty incredible.
Update: The cars are driving on the
wrong side of the road for this to be a picture taken in Thailand.
Hoax in German:
http://www.tu-berlin.de/www/software/hoax/seebeben.shtml
Hoax in English
http://www.stiller.com/hoaxes.htm
http://www.hoax.com/
Bent Bay`s Hoax site
Hoax from Bent Bay !
I am using the new XP-SE. Better than Home and
Special Edition.
 
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