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Goodtimes Virus
The Goodtimes virus, also styled as Good Times virus, was a computer virus hoax that spread during the early years of the Internet's popularity. Warnings about a computer virus named "Good Times" began being passed around among Internet users in 1994. The Goodtimes virus was supposedly transmitted via an email bearing the subject header "Good Times" or "Goodtimes", hence the virus's name, and the warning recommended deleting any such email unread. The virus described in the warnings did not exist, but the warnings themselves were, in effect, virus-like. In 1997 the Cult of the Dead Cow hacker collective announced that they had been responsible for the perpetration of the "Good Times" virus hoax as an exercise to "prove the gullibility of self-proclaimed 'experts' on the Internet". History The first recorded email warnings about the Good Times virus showed up on 15 November 1994. The first message was brief, a simple five sentence email with a Christmas greeting, advising recipie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Computer Virus Hoax
A computer virus hoax is a message warning the recipients of a non-existent computer virus Threat (computer), threat. The message is usually a chain e-mail that tells the recipients to forward it to everyone they know, but it can also be in the form of a pop-up window. Identification Most hoaxes are sensational in nature and easily identified by the fact that they indicate that the virus will do nearly impossible things, like blow up the recipient's computer and set it on fire, or less sensationally, delete everything on the user's computer. They often include fake announcements claimed to originate from reputable computer organizations together with mainstream news media. These bogus sources are quoted in order to give the hoax more credibility. Typically, the warnings use emotive language, stress the urgent nature of the threat and encourage readers to forward the message to other people as soon as possible. Virus hoaxes are usually harmless and accomplish nothing more than anno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft Outlook is a personal information manager software system from Microsoft, available as a part of the Microsoft 365 software suites. Primarily popular as an email client for businesses, Outlook also includes functions such as Calendaring software, calendaring, Time management#Software applications, task managing, contact manager, contact managing, note-taking, Transaction log, journal logging, Web navigation, web browsing, and RSS News aggregator, news aggregation. Individuals can use Outlook as a Software, stand-alone application; organizations can deploy it as multi-user software (through Microsoft Exchange Server or SharePoint) for shared functions such as Email box, mailboxes, Calendaring software, calendars, Shared resource, folders, data aggregation (i.e., SharePoint lists), and as Appointment scheduling software, appointment scheduling Mobile app, apps. Other than the paid software on Microsoft Windows, Windows and MacOS, Mac desktops that this article talks abo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Internet Memes
An Internet meme, or meme (, ''MEEM''), is a cultural item (such as an idea, behavior, or style) that spreads across the Internet, primarily through social media platforms. Internet memes manifest in a variety of formats, including images, videos, GIFs, and other viral content. Newer internet memes are often defined as brain rot. Key characteristics of memes include their tendency to be parodied, their use of intertextuality, their viral dissemination, and their continual evolution. The term ''meme'' was originally introduced by Richard Dawkins in 1972 to describe the concept of cultural transmission. The term ''Internet meme'' was coined by Mike Godwin in 1993 in reference to the way memes proliferated through early online communities, including message boards, Usenet groups, and email. The emergence of social media platforms such as YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram further diversified memes and accelerated their spread. Newer meme genres include "dank" and surre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virus Alert
Virus Alert is a song by American musician "Weird Al" Yankovic from his twelfth studio album, ''Straight Outta Lynwood'' (2006). The song is a style parody of the band Sparks. Background and composition "Virus Alert" is an original composition by Yankovic, written in the style of the band Sparks, particularly emulating their musical approach from the mid-1970s, known for its "hyperactive, keyboard-driven sound". Yankovic had long been a fan of the band and had previously included their song "This Town Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us" in his polka medleys. Lyrically, the song satirizes the chain-like emails and virus hoaxes that were prevalent in the late 1990s and early 2000s. These emails often contained frantic warnings about fictional, absurdly destructive computer viruses and urged recipients to forward the message to everyone they knew. The song's frantic pace and over-the-top descriptions of the virus's effects parody the hyperbolic and panicked tone of these email wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weird Al Yankovic
Weird may refer to: Places * Weird Lake, a lake in Minnesota, U.S. People *"Weird Al" Yankovic (born 1959), American musician and parodist Art, entertainment, and media Literature * '' Weird US'', a series of travel guides * ''The Weird'', a 2012 anthology of weird fiction * Weird fiction, speculative literature written in the late 19th and early 20th century Music * "Weird" (Hanson song), 1998 * "Weird", a song from Hilary Duff's album ''Hilary Duff'' * ''Weird!'', a 2020 album by Yungblud * New Weird America, a subgenre of psychedelic folk music of the mid-late 2000s * "Weird", a song from Lizzy McAlpine's album ''Five Seconds Flat'' (2022) Other art, entertainment, and media * Weird (character) ''The Weird'' is a fictional DC Comics character created by Jim Starlin and Bernie Wrightson. He first appeared in his own self-titled miniseries ''The Weird'' in 1988. Publication history The Weird appeared for the first time as the protagonist ..., a fictional DC Comics charact ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kak Worm
KAK (Kagou Anti Kro$oft) is a 1999 JavaScript worm that uses a bug in Outlook Express (CVE-1999-0668) to spread itself. Behavior On the first day of every month, at 6:00 pm, the worm uses SHUTDOWN.EXE to initiate a shutdown and show a popup with text "Kagou-anti-Kro$oft says not today!". A minimized window often appears on startup with the title "Driver Memory Error". Another message saying "S3 Driver Memory Alloc Failed!" occasionally pops up. The worm also adds a registry key and edits AUTOEXEC.BAT to make Windows launch it on startup. The worm adds these commands to AUTOEXEC.BAT: @ECHO off C:\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\StartUp\kak.hta DEL C:\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\StartUp\kak.hta Approach KAK works by exploiting a vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer, which Outlook Express uses to render HTML email. The vulnerability concerns the ActiveX control "Scriptlet.Typelib" which is usually used to create new type libraries (".tlb" files). However, the control does ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Kournikova (computer Virus)
The Anna Kournikova virus (also known as VBS.OnTheFly, VBS/SST, and VBS_Kalamar) was a computer worm that emerged in February 2001. Disguised as an email attachment purportedly containing a picture of Russian tennis player Anna Kournikova, the worm exploited users' curiosity to propagate itself. Upon opening the attachment, the worm replicated by sending itself to all contacts in the victim's Microsoft Outlook address book, causing widespread email disruptions. Unlike some other viruses of its time, it did not cause direct damage to files or systems. The worm was created by Jan de Wit, a 20-year-old Dutch student, using a Visual Basic Worm Generator program developed by an Argentinian programmer known as [K]Alamar. De Wit released the worm on February 11, 2001, and it rapidly infected millions of computers worldwide. He later turned himself in to authorities, stating that his intention was to highlight security vulnerabilities rather than cause harm. De Wit was subsequently conv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ILOVEYOU
ILOVEYOU, sometimes referred to as the Love Bug or Loveletter, was a computer worm that infected over ten million Windows personal computers on 4 May 2000 and after 5 May 2000. It started spreading as an email message with the subject line "ILOVEYOU" and the attachment "LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.vbs". Windows computers often hide the latter file extension (" VBS", a type of interpreted file) by default because it is an extension for a file type that Windows knows, leading unwitting users to think it was a normal text file. Opening the attachment activates the Visual Basic script. First, the worm inflicts damage on the local machine, overwriting random files (including Office files and image files; however, it hides MP3 files instead of deleting them), then, it copies itself to all addresses in the Windows Address Book used by Microsoft Outlook, allowing it to spread much faster than any other previous email worm. Onel de Guzman, a then-24-year-old computer science student at A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melissa Worm
The Melissa virus was a fast-spreading macro virus. It first appeared around March 26, 1999. This virus mainly attacked computers using Microsoft Word and Outlook. Melissa worked by sending itself to many people through email. This caused huge increases in network traffic, slowing down systems. The virus used infected Word documents as a way to spread. When someone opened an infected document, the virus would activate. It would then send itself to the first 50 people in the victim's Outlook address book. This rapid self-propagation made Melissa one of the most costly outbreaks at the time. Many companies had to shut down their email systems to stop its spread. Experts estimate that Melissa caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damages. Description The virus was released on March 26, 1999, by David L. Smith. Smith used a hijacked AOL account to post the virus onto an Internet newsgroup called "alt.sex." It soon ended up on similar sex groups and pornographic sites before spre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bad Times
Bad Times is a computer virus hoax sent out by e-mail. This "virus" does not actually exist, and the "warning" is meant to parody the alarmist message that spread the hoax of the Goodtimes virus hoax. The "Badtimes" email followed the principles of "Goodtimes", by warning of the horrible consequences that the alleged virus could inflict. However, "Badtimes" attempted to make itself implausible even to people unfamiliar with computers, although it started by claiming that the virus would wipe the victim's computer hard disk drive: implausible claims that "Badtimes" made included using subspace field harmonics to scratch any CDs that the victim attempted to play, drinking all the beer, and leaving dirty socks on the coffee table when the victim expected company. Some versions of "Badtimes" claimed that the virus replaced lunch meat with Spam, while making the victim's cologne and perfume smell like pickled cucumber. It is unclear whether the "Badtimes" email can be classed as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Internet
The Internet (or internet) is the Global network, global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. It is a internetworking, network of networks that consists of Private network, private, public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope, linked by a broad array of electronic, Wireless network, wireless, and optical networking technologies. The Internet carries a vast range of information resources and services, such as the interlinked hypertext documents and Web application, applications of the World Wide Web (WWW), email, electronic mail, internet telephony, streaming media and file sharing. The origins of the Internet date back to research that enabled the time-sharing of computer resources, the development of packet switching in the 1960s and the design of computer networks for data communication. The set of rules (communication protocols) to enable i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Computer Virus Hoaxes
A computer virus hoax is a message warning the recipients of a non-existent computer virus threat. The message is usually a chain e-mail that tells the recipients to forward it to everyone they know, but it can also be in the form of a pop-up window. Identification Most hoaxes are sensational in nature and easily identified by the fact that they indicate that the virus will do nearly impossible things, like blow up the recipient's computer and set it on fire, or less sensationally, delete everything on the user's computer. They often include fake announcements claimed to originate from reputable computer organizations together with mainstream news media. These bogus sources are quoted in order to give the hoax more credibility. Typically, the warnings use emotive language, stress the urgent nature of the threat and encourage readers to forward the message to other people as soon as possible. Virus hoaxes are usually harmless and accomplish nothing more than annoying people who id ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
