(or, "People who just don't get it")

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  Hi I whent into youre page and a recording is saying WARNING FIRE IS DETECTED THIS COMPUTER HAS BEEN INFECTED WITH MICROSOFT INFERAL EXPLORER so please help me is it real or is it just a joke

  -"ABSOLUT ZERO" (absolutzero21@hotmail.com)
  [Heh... I wonder what that zero is measuring...]

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  I wonder what side of the law your little message is. Don't worry- we will find out.

  -"Michael Ystad" (ekim_datsy@hotmail.com)

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  Yeah right your virus warning works.............. I've run Norton at least 5 times on the whole of my hard drive and |I = only updated it yesterday and it didn't find a fucking virus.........

  Youy can't even play the .wav file and a proper virus checker in less = thsan 500 k with a wav and a gif? you must think we are fucking stupid = you need to be shot.......

  -"Richard Gyles" (gyles@globalnet.co.uk)

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  You are the Virus, you fucking idiot. How many people have listened to = your joke and taken you seriously? How much dammage have you done? = People like you should be put on the rack, then have your damn head cut = and stuck on a pike in front of a webcam. Then live updates should = webcast the maggots crawling in and out of your empty eyesockets.

  You are the worst form of scum. You hurt people for no reason. I hope = the gods of cyberspace fry your fucking system.

  Sincerly
    BANDIT
  -"Snatch Bandit" (SnatchBandit@writeme.com)

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  While attempting to research a poison, my son inadvertently entered your web site. Upon entering the Poison Lists, a message came up stating that his system has been invaded with a virus and that he should reformat his hard drive.

  Is this a joke or is this something that we should be concerned about? Please respond as soon as possible. I would very much appreciate your clarification of this issue.

  -JRChalkjr (JRChalkjr@aol.com)

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  Please see accompanying letter and respond with a return comment as to whether the Virus Warning is a joke or something of real consequence. It is very important that we understand the situation. I have a young son who is very upset in that he believes he may have done something to hurt his system. Thank you.

  -JRChalkjr (JRChalkjr@aol.com)

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  While I thought your "Virus Warning!" WAV file was kind of cute... you would be doing an equally nice public service by putting a little disclaimer in fine print at the bottom of you page or something letting people know that it's all just a big anti-Microsoft joke. There was a huge uproar over it at my university's computer science department... the terminals in the computer labs run both Communicator and IE, and some asshole came in and set your page to be the "startup page" for IE on all the machines. The administration freaked, was about to ban your university's domain from our server, and contact your university's administration about you (don't worry, that's an even bigger joke than it sounds like). Anyway, I stepped in in time and pointed out the joke to these ivory-tower academic morons. Still, a small disclaimer in tiny font would be cool thing to do. Take care!

  -Steve D. Perkins

Last modified: 98Feb28
Added "Snatch Bandit"'s eloquent argument against the Virus Warning.