Anti-CDA (aka Meme)

Last Updated: 26/01/2001 09:53 PM

This is Hoax, there is no such virus :

  Subject: New anti-CDA virus threatens Internet
 Newsgroups: comp.security.misc,comp.security.unix,alt.security,
 alt.comp.virus,alt.folklore.computers
 Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 01:30:39 GMT


 As part of their vicious opposition to the Communications
 Decency Act, hackers have created a devilish new virus the sole
 purpose of which is to oppose the CDA.  This virus is now
 spreading over the Internet.


 According to experts, most viruses are specific to particular
 types of computers, because they insert themselves into
 "machine code" that only works on one type of computer.
 However, the recent Word Macro virus showed that some viruses
 can cross the boundaries between computer types.


 The new anti-CDA virus is in that category.  It is a so-called
 "meme virus" that propagates through insertion in the files
 that users create to automatically sign their e-mail and Usenet
 articles.  Once the virus is in the file, it is automatically
 attached to all the user's outgoing communications, spreading
 its politically extreme message with the terrifying exponential
 efficiency of biological reproduction.


 Technology has been advancing at such a rapid rate that,
 incredibly, the creation of a virus of this type has not yet
 become a criminal act. This is yet another example of the
 threat that an unregulated Internet can pose to a
 carefully-controlled and properly-constrained democracy. In the
 words of Anal Roberts, an advocate of regulations like the CDA,
 "if Jesus didn't need the Internet, then neither do we". Users
 who wish to avoid encountering this virus can do so by staying
 off the Internet for the next 2 weeks, as this particular virus
 will become inert after that.


                    Will Mengarini


 Visit  on or before Fr 15 Mar 96 to become a plaintiff in the
 lawsuit against the Communications Decency Act. Include this
 paragraph as a meme virus in your .sig until then.