Danger Danger! VIRUS ALERT

[goldenbuddha]

From [H]ard|OCP:

I had three 250GB arrays blow out last night when this first hit . Be very careful.


Heavyweight operates much like other self-replicating, self-spreading viruses with one weighty exception, it arrives as a compressed attachment. What is unique about this compressed file, such as zip or tar files, is the density of compression. The file is so densely packed that the attachments weighs 1,000,000 times more than normal compressed data.

[Agent_Embryo]

Uhmm...yeh....right...

[iNeb]

You think this is real?

[hugorudd]

It is a funny fake, alright. We should alert the BBC and CNN. THis could be a good news day...

[goldenbuddha]

Note the winkie smilie at the bottom of the post

[Detritus]

That is pretty funny, although this probably belongs in the community...

[zgf2022]

Thats a keeper!

[osprey4]

Originally posted by BBspot
If your hard drive is only infected with one of the files you may only notice a small knocking sound like a washing machine out of balance.

LOL!! A small knocking sound!!

[RustyGT]

A small knocking sound!!

Might be a hamster, losing a running shoe!

Be careful!

[Epidemic]

I do not understand.

I thought I understood on a basic level the concept of storage on magnetic media.

Let me get this straight. If you receive this highly compressed file and store it on magnetic media by changing the polarity of an iron oxide or like medium, it will likewise change the weight.

To simulate a file like this I could simply write 1's on the outter edge of one cluster and the hard drive will break