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Unit649
I B U, Who U B?
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join:2000-01-22
Stockton, CA

Precisely the reason for this

This is the reason alot of these so called "virus hoaxes" are created. The creator knows that 99% of the computer world will just delete it, but if even ONE person does what it says and messes their system up....they accomplished their goal.

J


shritis

@innernet.net

The goal of course being making the internet safer for those of us who actually know what we're doing. reducing traffic while charging the person for their own stupidity was the added bonus of the Joke-a-day aol.exe hoax.



RiceARoni
Gerald Bostock

join:2001-06-04
Liverpool, NY

But what if the ultimate goal wasn't to fool AOLers, but rather to give us non-AOLers something to triumphantly hoot about?

Call me (mildly) paranoid, but...


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