RE: Announcement: New Virus targets MP3 Files

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Posted by CynepMeH on Apr-01-2004 19:21:

RE: Announcement: New Virus targets MP3 Files

Swamper - april fools joke?

Hm... let's see: Announcement shows reference link:

http://207.44.240.27/virus/info/trance.1999.html

doing a bit of digging:

H:\>ping -a 207.44.240.27

Pinging www.tranceaddict.com [207.44.240.27] with 32 bytes of data:

Hahahaha!!!!!! Good one, you actually had me scared.... for a second or so...

Posted by xtr3m on Apr-01-2004 19:29:

It's so quiet here, I bet everyone is carefully making their mp3s read-only. =p

Posted by crazedcanuck on Apr-01-2004 19:49:

I posted the same thing after the "announcement" came up in the Toronto forums, and the admins deleted it roflmao.

Posted by Ian on Apr-01-2004 20:45:

Deletes the values:

Explorer

dontsendtheletter.exe

omghi2u.exe
pixorstfu.exe
tit.exe
paulmolitor_was_here.exe
are_you_a_ninja.bat

If the system date matches the 1st day of any month it will attempt to perform a Denial of Service (DoS) attack against the following sites between 17:00 and 21:00 (GMT):

www.ivibes.nu
www.tranceaddict.com

www.ets-global.org

Posted by alanzo on Apr-01-2004 21:03:

I fell for it, but I only made my entire MP3 directory read only with one click.. didn't waste much of my time :P

I don't use Kazaa anyway.. it sux donkey balls..

Posted by itsTrueSonic on Apr-01-2004 22:02:

omg! omg! omg! omg! omg!
is it a plot against us from the RIAA?
woah there! the government is getting violent with us! big brother has returned to haunt us ... i don't know if i can take it .. ooohhh the pressure!!!

let's see ... what if i delete all my TRANCE mp3s and leave a couple of mp3s available from let's say Britney Spears, Stacey Orrico, Hilary Duff, FeFe Dobson, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Jessica Simpson, Christina Aguilera, and Pink.... they wouldn't catch me now .. hahaha .. they would think i am gay with all this chick music. ..

then again .. i do have some "secret encryption software" to hide my mp3s and change the file extension so no one knows i have any ... now how do i hide my software ... hmmm.....

Posted by victor on Apr-01-2004 23:09:

right click -> properties? rotfl!!!

Posted by DiMethGuy on Apr-01-2004 23:11:

quote:
Originally posted by victor

dig the sig man

Posted by TrAnCeAkI on Apr-01-2004 23:18:

thanks god i dont know what read only files are or i would have been going crazy now :P

Posted by regulate on Apr-01-2004 23:20:

whoa had me scared for a minute! (the minute it tooke me to read the joke thread and this )

Posted by _Nut_ on Apr-02-2004 00:25:

quote:
Originally posted by Vanos
[IMG]C:\Documents and Settings\Jinn\�� \ICQ Lite\313710499\Dantist_297238612[/IMG]

Dare we even tell you that you cant link a picture from your hard drive?

Posted by Wildfir3 on Apr-02-2004 00:32:

Nothing funny about virusses and mp3 though... lost 25gigs of mp3's yesterday due to a virus.

Anyway, time for me to clean up... no more vinyl rip mp3's etc, only livesets, they're at least a tiny bit more legal or smt

Posted by tortoise on Apr-02-2004 01:37:

i though it might be an fools joke but i went crazy changing every thing to Read Only anyway but o well it was a very good joke.

Posted by starglider on Apr-02-2004 02:08:

quote:
Originally posted by Vanos
[IMG]C:\Documents and Settings\Jinn\�� \ICQ Lite\313710499\Dantist_297238612[/IMG]

lol, there's not even an extension on his file. And god knows what �� is.

Posted by xtr3m on Apr-02-2004 02:24:

It's 'My Documents' in Russian.

Posted by Lira on Apr-02-2004 03:05:

quote:
Originally posted by starglider
lol, there's not even an extension on his file.

Yes.

quote:
Originally posted by xtr3m
It's 'My Documents' in Russian.

Da.

Posted by smokeape on Apr-02-2004 03:05:

Well I didn't go changing anything to Read Only, but did run an anti-virus signature update, so I guess I got fooled. I was suspicious anyhow when a search engine hunt for the virus name turned up no matches.

Good one.

[[[smoke]]]