# I opened that virus just like you said not to

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 7, 2001, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-opened-that-virus-just-like-you-said-not-to/97357 "2001-12-07T02:32:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2001, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-opened-that-virus-just-like-you-said-not-to/97357/1 "2001-12-07T02:32:54Z")

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I didn’t think anyone was that stupid.  
NPR said the screen saver was supposed to be Harry Potter, that’s what I told them in email.  
It just said “Hi Harry” and “screen saver”, so she opened it.

I think they ought to let us kill one user a year. I could melt AOL CDs and pour the hot goo into their nostrils. I would leave the body hanging so that those big black beetles with the yellow spot that eat dead snakes would consume them.

Oye.

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**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2001, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-opened-that-virus-just-like-you-said-not-to/97357/2 "2001-12-07T04:09:11Z")

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I know the feeling. I’m always sending out virus warnings where I work and include one rule: never open an attachment if you don’t know what it is. And always people continue to blithely click on any attachment that comes their way. So we have to run out and clean up the mess.

And then they do it again. . … :rolleyes: