bloodhound Posted August 2, 2004 Share Posted August 2, 2004 FOOT-AND-MOUTH BELIEVED TO BE FIRST VIRUS UNABLE TO SPREAD THROUGH MICROSOFT OUTLOOK Researchers Shocked to Finally Find Virus That Email App Doesn't Like Atlanta, Ga. — Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Symantec's AntiVirus Research Center today confirmed that foot-and-mouth disease cannot be spread by Microsoft's Outlook email application, believed to be the first time the program has ever failed to propagate a major virus. "Frankly, we've never heard of a virus that couldn't spread through Microsoft Outlook, so our findings were, to say the least, unexpected," said Clive Sarnow, director of the CDC's infectious disease unit. The study was immediately hailed by British officials, who said it will save millions of pounds and thousands of man hours. "Up until now we have, quite naturally, assumed that both foot-and-mouth and mad cow were spread by Microsoft Outlook," said Nick Brown, Britain's Agriculture Minister. "By eliminating it, we can focus our resources elsewhere." However, researchers in the Netherlands, where foot-and-mouth has recently appeared, said they are not yet prepared to disqualify Outlook, which has been the progenitor of viruses such as "I Love You," "Bubbleboy," "Anna Kournikova," and "Naked Wife," to name but a few. Said Nils Overmars, director of the Molecular Virology Lab at Leiden University: "It's not that we don't trust the research, it's just that as scientists, we are trained to be skeptical of any finding that flies in the face of established truth. And this one flies in the face like a blind drunk sparrow." Executives at Microsoft, meanwhile, were equally skeptical, insisting that Outlook's patented Virus Transfer Protocol (VTP) has proven virtually pervious to any virus. The company, however, will issue a free VTP patch if it turns out the application is not vulnerable to foot-and-mouth. Such an admission would be embarrassing for the software giant, but Symantec virologist Ariel Kologne insisted that no one is more humiliated by the study than she is. "Only last week, I had a reporter ask if the foot-and-mouth virus spreads through Microsoft Outlook, and I told him, 'Doesn't everything?'" she recalled. "Who would've thought?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayonara Posted August 2, 2004 Share Posted August 2, 2004 You know better than to copy-and-paste news articles - please provide a link to the source and credit the owner. You might also consider that everyone who reads this (and has a brain) will want to corroborate it with the appropriate services. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bloodhound Posted August 2, 2004 Author Share Posted August 2, 2004 oops sorry dude. if u want to find the original source, i just copy a phrase and google it. if anyone can't be bothered to do that then this is were i got it from. http://www.satirewire.com/news/0103/outlook.shtml Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayonara Posted August 2, 2004 Share Posted August 2, 2004 It's not a matter of people being lazy, it's a matter of copyright. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bloodhound Posted August 2, 2004 Author Share Posted August 2, 2004 ok man. just calm down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayonara Posted August 2, 2004 Share Posted August 2, 2004 Just because it's essentially a joke doesn't mean you can reproduce it word-for-word without the owner's permission. Now you don't seem to care about that, but you've seen other people being beasted here for breaking the same rules. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
admiral_ju00 Posted August 2, 2004 Share Posted August 2, 2004 I thought he was making stuff up, kind of play on words thing. As foot-and-mouth can mean either he was serious or he has came up with this whole elaborate scheme of getting someone's attention here. And no, while I do not consider myself lazy, I did not search for the source(unknown at the time), nor was I willing to ask any questions on what that really means. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
admiral_ju00 Posted August 2, 2004 Share Posted August 2, 2004 What do you mean? Like I said, when I first read this thread, I thought that either that was a very intricate way of getting someone's attention and certainly a more polite way of saying "Don't say stuff you know nothing about" or that was a legitimate news story. Certainly you can see why I was a bit confused by this article which had no source. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayonara Posted August 2, 2004 Share Posted August 2, 2004 Ah ha ha, I had already deleted my post and now you look crazy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
admiral_ju00 Posted August 2, 2004 Share Posted August 2, 2004 Funny. On a second thought, I think you're onto something there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bloodhound Posted August 3, 2004 Author Share Posted August 3, 2004 u all suck anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phi for All Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 Ah ha ha, I had already deleted my post and now you look crazy."Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men." --Lord Acton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sayonara Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 You missed off the bit where he went on to say "...but at least they aren't like those annoying guys who have to quote people to borrow authority - they really piss me off, especially when I am busy getting corrupted". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phi for All Posted August 3, 2004 Share Posted August 3, 2004 Lord Acton said that to Bishop Creighton?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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