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Can viruses cause physical aggressivity?

Tonight someone called me at 02h30 on my cell phone and left a voice mail. I just listened it and was quite baffled. A women's voice says that it's disgusting that I'm sending viruses to people and threatens to come over to kick my arse if I continue.

Clearly some virus spoofed its 'from' address or some other trick to make it appear as if it came from one of my own email addresses. That women then set out to find who I was and to threaten me.

Even though I don't run any windows operating system, take all possible virus countermeasures (since they clutter my inbox), filter them out at the mailserver etc etc etc, I could still be harmed by it ... but not on the computer. Imagine what will happen if this plague continues and people continue to misinterprete what they see. If you can get aggressed because you offended someone with a few words on the street ... I would not be surprised if people were tracked down and beaten up if someone's computer has been wiped and infected again for the 100rd time.

It's a sad world :-(

posted by Geert Bevin in Computing on May 14, 2004 8:17 AM : 2 comments [permalink]
 

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Re: Can viruses cause physical aggressivity?

Eeek, what is this, call her back and threaten to beat her up for spamming your voice mail.

Re: Can viruses cause physical aggressivity?

Her phone number was not displayed, but otherwise I'd call back and explain the situation. Though she did seem a bit hysterical, so I'm not sure she'd listen.

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