this is what he said:
if you are reading this a virus is clearing your hard drive you cant scan it and it can not be detected. if you want the b.i.o. code to clear your hard drive and all your random acess memory leve me alone and i will email it to you in one week, not alot will be lost by then.

is it true?

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Actually. I don't really know... but I honestly doubt it.

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And you can always check for viruses with a free virus scan program available online.

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yeh it BS.  send him back an equally BS email.  

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hey ok what should i say?

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Or, better yet, you can even make it believable.

"That's funny, I gave you something similar a short while back!  I infected your computer with a stealthed version of Poision Ivy awhile ago! What a nifty little R.A.T.!  Cool, looks like great minds think alike! Well, I guess not. Mine isn't eating your HD, it's meerly giving me access to everything on your computer and logging your keystrokes... but there is this funky "melt harddrive" feature that looks interesting."

That one would work, since Poision Ivy is an actual R.A.T. trojan and would make it believable ;)

Post edited at 7:09 pm on Sep. 1, 2006 by Thr0wn

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How he would get hold of something like that, I don't know, but I don't think he really would have. None of it does sound logically possible. This is just a bluff, and you should ignore it. These sort of things are used to scare users who don't know too much about computers, just like the emails that scam you by saying something happened to your banking account, and takes you to their fraud site to fix it up (which means you insert your banking details).

Random Access Memory (RAM), isn't that important. It gets written over and over again all of the time when you are opening and closing applications. When it fills up, it moves onto the hard drive (called page file memory), which can result in slower speeds when you do things with applications sometimes. I think he should have just stuck with Read Only Memory (ROM) instead, because although it is meant to be read only, it is still possible to be written over, and you will have to take it back to the manufacturer to reprogram.

As for the erasing of the Hard Drive (HDD), I seriously doubt it. You would have easily noticed a program that bad already.

If you want, scare him back by saying that you are sorry for annoying him, and that he has to stop it from making your computer going seriously screwed up (make up details). That might scare him, and force him to say it wasn't true.

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