As I walked into my office, my e-mail program announced a new message from my pen-pal. I opened the e-mail, and suddenly my hard drive started to react madly. I mean, the thing started to click non-stop, and somewhere throughout the e-mail, it said "Hey pal by reading this mail, you have just been infected with a virus deadlier than the Deyenda, Good Times, and Pen Pal virus".
I frantically reached for the power cord, and yanked it out of the power socket. I thought I outsmarted the bug, but pondered for something intelligent to do. So I pulled out a bootable write-protected disk, and started my computer with it. To my dismay, the virus had already deleted my e-mail messages, spreadsheets, programs, and personal information. It also destroyed my boot sector.
I tried reviving my disk with several disk utilities. There was no hope because the bug had outsmarted them too. So I decided to use a disk editor to take a good look at the virus, and perhaps help restore my boot sector. Carefully, I looked for the first sector on the hard disk, and found two words: April Fool!
Gotcha! By now, you should have known that e-mail messages CANNOT spread
viruses! :-)
From "How to out-hoax a virus hoax" by Lenny Din
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