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My mum who has just called me from work, theres a massive virus that has just started to affect loads of computers that are Windows 2000 and upwards.
She told me its on the news and its affected all of the Airports and stuff.
They are telling everyone to get off of their computers so that you dont get affected.
I haven't seen any news about it but im sure my mum wouldn't lie, I've tried looking for it on the BBC website but no luck.

Just thought i'd tell you.

Chow.

Stridman™ wrote:
> Dad works for British Telecom.

So?

Does that mean we have to now respect you infinately?

I did say I could be wrong.
No need to get all Granny Like on me.

Wat iz a virus?

Microchips wrote:
> Are your parents employed in the same company?

No.
Dad works for British Telecom.

"The fault is thought to lie with the data processing system. We think it is to do with the flow of data."

So unless both your parents are air traffic controllers, the two things are completely unrelated. Now shoo.

Are your parents employed in the same company?

doesn't mean they're in any way related.

It even says on that airline story that they located the origin of the glitch in their own system.

gaybys, my mums office system has crashed as well.

And my dad's.

Kilo wrote:
> your mum lies i just called my flat mate and she's watching the news
> and there;s nothing about any virus they're talking about pollen
> counts

Heh.

"the UK's air traffic control system crashed"

Their system crashed. So what?
It doesn't say anything about a virus because it didn't have anything to do with a virus.

This is simply another case of a fool who doesn't understand these things exaggerating an event completely out of proportion because they automatically think:

something wrong with computer = OMG GIANT VIRUS WTF OMG!!!!!!!111twenty-seven