TheSaint
join:2002-01-25
Hanover Park, IL
clubs: |  So this means they'll have less money to spend on
THOSE ANNOYING CD'S! DIE CD'S, DIE! |
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jhboricua
ExMod 2000-01
join:2000-06-06
Minneapolis, MN
clubs: | OMG that is truly priceless...
This guy better be on his way to some foreign country. |
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dadkins
Can you do Blu?
Premium,MVM
join:2003-09-26
Hercules, CA | Hmmm
I wonder what AOL did to make this employee "disgruntled"... |
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CrazyFingers
join:2003-10-01
Columbia, MO | So easy to hoax, no wonder they're #1
Hmm...lets see...I'm trying to find the appropriate response to this story. The only one I can come up with that truly fits is:
BWAAAAHAHAHAHHAHAAHAHAHAHAHHA!...
Oh, god, I think I need new underwear...HEHEHEHEHEHEHHE.. |
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JohnInSJ
Premium
join:2003-09-22
San Jose, CA
 ·Comcast
| clues....
quote:
As of today we are sending this letter out to inform each and every one of
you that we have agreed that you need a bigger paycheck!
See, that was the first clue this was a virus-email 
Second, where the heck was their mailserver-based email attachment virus scanning software?
I'm thinking the local IT guys/gals will quickly become the next disgruntled (ex?) employees... |
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Varangian
join:2002-12-08
Collinsville, IL | nasteh
I can't believe this was unprovoked.
Maybe they pushed the suit's Vote yourself into wage slavery- er re-elect Bush - campaign too hard |
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2kmaro
Think
Premium,ExMod 1 BC
join:2000-07-11
ColossalCave
clubs: 
| Lesson 2B Learned
The most dangerous employee in today's business world may well be that little, often-overlooked, underpaid and overworked guy with all the passwords to all the accounts, servers and direct access to the mail server!! 
said by Scene at IT shop:
I'm fired? Oh well, guess it was just a matter of time... Just let me finish up what I was doing...
types furiously: Delete *.*[enter]
Ok, all done. Oh, and did you get my memo about possibly wanting to move off of Windows systems?
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Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment. Barry LePatner |
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LaserjetXX
join:2004-03-13
Waterford, MI | I like the CD's
You just have to take what they say on the AOL CD's more literally. They say to pass them onto a friend so I frisbee them on over into my neighbors yard across the street. He mows his lawn excessively so it's really fun to watch. |
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KoolMoe
Aw Man
Premium
join:2001-02-14
Annapolis, MD
clubs: | reply to JohnInSJ
Re: clues....
Virus scans only work if they have a definition for a given virus file. If this employee created this virus, then there likely exists no definition for it, thus scanners are rather useless.
KM |
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Jafo232
You Can't Spell Democrat Without Rat.
Premium
join:2002-10-17
Boonville, NY
·RoadRunner Cable
| reply to dadkins
Re: Hmmm
said by dadkins  :
I wonder what AOL did to make this employee "disgruntled"...
Perhaps they demanded that he learn how to spell?
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nos insuadibilis defessus, nos insuadibilis inclino, nos insuadibilis concido. |
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vic102482
Premium
join:2002-04-30
Upper Marlboro, MD | Hahahah
Oh man thats good.:P He is in big trouble though, like a previous poster said, he better have plane tickets.
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I tie a rope around my penis and jump from a tree, don't you wanna grow up to be just like me!!!! |
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vic102482
Premium
join:2002-04-30
Upper Marlboro, MD
1 edit | reply to 2kmaro
Re: Lesson 2B Learned
Thats true. Where I worked the Admin password was changed 9AM in the morning while someone was being fired, and again at 4PM after they were gone.
They had a book of all the places to change the passwords and stuff. After the blaster worm came out we were changing for like 5 days straight lol.
Dont keep your systems updated, dont keep your paychecks.
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I tie a rope around my penis and jump from a tree, don't you wanna grow up to be just like me!!!! |
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netwire
Premium
join:2001-04-27
Mooresboro, NC
·RoadRunner Cable
 ·Millenicom
·Sprint Mobile Broa..
 ·Vonage
| OM....
Anyone employee who was stupid enough to believe such storie... my god... deserves to be fired. I mean, c'mon if I got a letter like this from my boss I'd think he lost his marbles.
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[url=http://www.metaversemedia.com/blogger.php]Read my blog...... hey!? your still here?[/url] |
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ResidentParanoid
 from:
dadkins
kapil
| Yet another example of lax security.
Great timing...
Just doing some channel surfing on the central FL BrightHouse cable, and hit the channel guide. Except it wasn't the channel guide, it was the computer they use to generate it, with a porn spam IM sitting on the screen.
Called the customer-no-service line and explained that they had a problem with the non-digital channel guide, and that they might want to do something about it.
She told me to reboot my smartbox to fix it. I DON'T HAVE A #%$& SMARTBOX ON THIS THING! Then she wanted my account number or address so they could see if it was a problem with my equipment or neighborhood. I patiently explained to her that the problem wasn't on my end, and asked if she had a non-digital TV she could see from her desk. She said yes. Told her to put it on channel 49 (the guide). "Oh!" she said, "I'll be right back"
And then the mouse on the screen started jumping all over the place as somebody tried to fix it. Turns out that there were several more of the IM's waiting behind the front one. After a few moments of clicking to close them, they apparently rebooted the box.
The real question here is why the heck do they have a box like that sitting directly on the internet? And why is the messenger service running on it anyway? |
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TheGiant
Next Year Is Here.
join:2001-03-28
Augusta, GA
| reply to TheSaint
So what was in the application?
I wonder what kind of personal info it asked for? Employee Number? SS#? Direct deposit information? You could get quite a few people ending up with Identity theft over this.
I bet he wrote this at work and it will only be a matter of time before the culprit is found. Unless it Auto spammed itself I don't see how this could be considered a virus. Sounds more like a simple e-mail to me.
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Maddox has come Home! |
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Marilla
I Am My Own Arbiter
Premium
join:2002-12-06
Belpre, OH | reply to Varangian
Re: nasteh
Someone needs to come along to the 21st century with the rest of us... |
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Varangian
join:2002-12-08
Collinsville, IL | reply to dadkins
Re: Hmmm
Outsourced their job?
Insulted their ability?
Installed AOl on their PC? |
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Varangian
join:2002-12-08
Collinsville, IL | reply to Varangian
Re: nasteh
hehe
got my BetaMax, Quadrophonic Stero and Creep receipts at hand! |
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Varangian
join:2002-12-08
Collinsville, IL | reply to LaserjetXX
Re: I like the CD's
I like the fish sculpture in the AOL advertisement |
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aeagle
join:2004-03-03
Schenectady, NY
1 edit | April Fools came too late -
 Somebody need to tell that worker that today is not a April Fools Day |
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