I thought you should be warned.  Forwarded message follows:
 
If you receive an e-mail with a subject line of "badtimes," delete it
immediately WITHOUT reading it.
 
This is the most dangerous Email virus yet.
 
It will re-write your hard drive. Not only that, but it will scramble any
disks that are even close to your computer.
 
It will recalibrate your refrigerator's coolness setting so all your ice
cream melts and milk freezes.
 
It will demagnetize the strips on all your credit cards, reprogram your
ATM access code, screw up the tracking on your VCR and use subspace field
harmonics to scratch any CDs you try to play.
 
It will give your ex-boy/girlfriend your new phone number.
 
It will mix antifreeze into your fish tank.
 
It will drink all your beer and leave its dirty socks on the coffee table
when there's company coming over.
 
It will hide your car keys when you are late for work and interfere with
your car radio so that you hear only static while stuck in traffic.
BadTimes will make you fall in love with a hardened pedophile.
 
It will give you nightmares about circus midgets.
 
It will replace your shampoo with Nair and your Nair with Rogaine, all
while dating your current boy/girlfriend behind your back and billing
their hotel rendezvous to your Visa card.
BadTimes will give you Dutch Elm disease.
 
It will leave the toilet seat up and leave the hairdryer plugged in
dangerously close to a full bathtub.
 
It will remove the forbidden tags from your mattresses and pillows, and
refill your skim milk with whole.
 
It is insidious and subtle.
 
It is dangerous and terrifying to behold.
 
It is also a rather interesting shade of mauve.  These are just a few
signs. Be very, very afraid.
 
=======================================================================
> Subject:      Fwd: EARLIEST VIRUS WARNING
>
>
> TO: Trojan Army Listserv <Trojans-L@troy.org>
> RE: WARNING!! BEWARE GREEKS BEARING GIFTS!
>
> Hey Hector,
> This was forwarded to me by Cassandra -- it looks legit.
> Please distribute to Priam, Hecuba, and your 99 siblings.
>
> Thanks,
> Laocoon
>       * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
>       WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!
>
> IF YOU RECEIVE A GIFT IN THE SHAPE OF A LARGE WOODEN HORSE -- DO NOT
> DOWNLOAD IT!!!!
>
> It is EXTREMELY DESTRUCTIVE and will overwrite your ENTIRE CITY!
> The "gift" is disguised as a large wooden horse -- about two stories
> tall. It tends to show up outside the city gates and appears to be
> abandoned --
>
> DO NOT let it through the gates! It contains hardware that is
> incompatible with Trojan programming -- including a crowd of
heavily-armed
> Greek warriors
> that will destroy your army -- sack your town -- and kill your women
and
> children.
>
> If you have already received such a gift -- DO NOT OPEN IT! Take it
back
> out of the city -- unopened  -- and set fire to it by the beach.
>
>       FORWARD THIS MESSAGE TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW!
>       Poseidon
>
> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
>
> FROM: hector@studmuffin.com
> TO: laocoon@doomgloom.edu
> RE: Greeks bearing gifts
>
> Laocoon,
> I hate to break to you, but this is one of the oldest hoaxes there is.
> I've seen variants on this warning come through on other listservs.
One
> involved some kind of fruit that was supposed to kill the people who
ate
> it -- and
> one had to do with something called the "Midas Touch."  Here are a few
> tipoffs that this is a hoax:
>
>     1) This "Forward this message to everyone you know" crap. If it
were
> really
>     meant as a warning about the Greek army -- why tell anyone to post
it
> to the
>     Phonecians, Sumerians, and Cretans?
>
>     2) Use of exclamation points. Always a giveaway!
>
>     3) It's signed "Poseidon." Granted he's had his problems with
Odysseus
>     but he's one of their guys, isn't he? Besides -- the lack of a
real
> header with a detailed address makes me suspicious.
>
>     4) Technically speaking -- there is no way a horse can overwrite
your
>     entire city. A horse is just an animal, after all.
>
>     Next time you get a message like this -- just delete it. I
appreciate
> your
>     concern -- but once you've been around the block a couple times
you'll
>     realize how annoying this kind of stuff is.
>
>     Bye for now,
>     Hector
>
> ^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^
 
 
______________________________________________________
Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com