AOL Virus Chain Letter

[tami3_3]

Hi everyone!

I was just wondering if any of you had seen this;

'from Fred Langa's newsletter;'

My name is Ray Owens and I run Joke A Day. I wrote the AOL.EXE virus bit and sent it to my list of 342,000 readers on June 5, 2001. Feel free to check out the entire sordid story of how this sucker has gone worldwide at jokeaday.com

'then from Fred;'

The amazing part of the story--- you'll see it if you follow the link above--- is that many AOL users fell for the joke, and actually deleted "aol.exe" from their systems, thinking it *was* a virus. Incredible!

I don't know how to do your quote thing here so I just cut and pasted it in. I hope it comes out right. It really is too funny.

Tami

[smurfy]

And the real punch-line is of course:

AOL.exe is worse than most virii out there so Ray was actually doing them a favour!

[zipulrich]