# Warning: virus alter !!!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-virus-alter/83409>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 23, 2001, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-virus-alter/83409 "2001-09-23T23:10:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2001, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-virus-alter/83409/1 "2001-09-23T23:10:32Z")

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Just now, I received an e-mail titled “Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, the Real Story” from someone called “HaHaHa.” There were a couple of lines of text and an attachment. The text looked like it was setting up some kind of adult joke. When I went to play the attachment, Norton Anti-Virus jumped in and alerted me that it was a virus! I quarantined the thing, and then deleted it so it can’t hurt my system.

If you receive this e-mail, delete it without opening it!

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**Author:** ![Sylkyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@Sylkyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylkyn)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2001, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-virus-alter/83409/2 "2001-09-23T23:26:23Z")

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I got about fifty or so copies of that virus last year, or the beginning of this one. If I recall correctly, it’s either the same or about the same as the ILOVEYOU virus, which is a big meanie. (I may possibly be wrong about that, but I do know they both were bad-ass viruses.)

Luckily I knew it was out there before I got the emails. I never opened it at all; simply deleted them and that was that.

Glad your system wasn’t harmed.

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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:** [September 24, 2001, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warning-virus-alter/83409/3 "2001-09-24T00:31:11Z")

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That’s hybris and it’s been around since last November. It’s a slow infector, which means you won’t notice you have it as it sends out one or two messages a day – not enough for your system adminstrator to notice.

Now for the fun part – try going to the [http://www.sexyfun.net](http://www.sexyfun.net) website (or reply to the message). It’s a site that was set up to warn people of the virus (the site didn’t exist until after the virus was found).