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Wikipedia targetted by virus creators? - 11/6/2006 5:24:38 AM   
LadyEllen


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Status: offline 		** Virus creators target Wikipedia **
The online encyclopedia has been used to try to infect users with malicious code.
< http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/1/hi/technology/6120268.stm >


This is from BBC - putting it out there as I know lots of people here use it!

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RE: Wikipedia targetted by virus creators? - 11/6/2006 5:52:24 AM   
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** Virus creators target Wikipedia **
The online encyclopedia has been used to try to infect users with malicious code.
< http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/1/hi/technology/6120268.stm >

This is from BBC - putting it out there as I know lots of people here use it!

E


Well.....Maybe Al-Qaeda did it - They're an easy scapegoat for most of the ills in the world.



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< Message edited by UtopianRanger -- 11/6/2006 5:53:03 AM >

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RE: Wikipedia targetted by virus creators? - 11/6/2006 6:43:37 AM   
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RE: Wikipedia targetted by virus creators? - 11/6/2006 8:24:57 AM   
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RE: Wikipedia targetted by virus creators? - 11/6/2006 8:27:24 AM   
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Well.....Maybe Al-Qaeda did it

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RE: Wikipedia targetted by virus creators? - 11/6/2006 1:07:42 PM   
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RE: Wikipedia targetted by virus creators? - 11/6/2006 1:09:30 PM   
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RE: Wikipedia targetted by virus creators? - 11/6/2006 3:11:00 PM   
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RE: Wikipedia targetted by virus creators? - 11/6/2006 3:25:21 PM   
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Status: offline 		Nah Julia, it'd have to be the crossdressers what done it, for that purpose LOL!
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RE: Wikipedia targetted by virus creators? - 11/6/2006 4:32:34 PM   
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< Message edited by candystripper -- 11/6/2006 4:34:01 PM >

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RE: Wikipedia targetted by virus creators? - 11/6/2006 4:34:24 PM   
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Or those traitors who are asking too many questions about Halliburton?

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RE: Wikipedia targetted by virus creators? - 11/6/2006 4:50:38 PM   
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If it wasn't Al-Qaeda, it probably was a bunch of environmentalists.

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Well.....Maybe Al-Qaeda did it



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RE: Wikipedia targetted by virus creators? - 11/6/2006 4:51:41 PM   
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RE: Wikipedia targetted by virus creators? - 11/6/2006 4:53:46 PM   
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That's not funny.

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RE: Wikipedia targetted by virus creators? - 11/6/2006 10:20:23 PM   
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RE: Wikipedia targetted by virus creators? - 11/6/2006 10:25:06 PM   
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Or that Borat guy.......... shifty devil.


Borat rocks!!! as Borat might say......"yeesh, ina my country of Kazakhstan we has many scientist who put virus against the evil Uzbekis.....you like? High five!"
this is in imitation of a British comedian who poses as "Borat" a journalist from Kazakhstan...

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RE: Wikipedia targetted by virus creators? - 11/6/2006 10:34:30 PM   
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(but those who are not in the know are now afraid to look it up in Wiki)

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RE: Wikipedia targetted by virus creators? - 11/7/2006 2:39:35 AM   
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Or that Borat guy.......... shifty devil.


Borat rocks!!! as Borat might say......"yeesh, ina my country of Kazakhstan we has many scientist who put virus against the evil Uzbekis.....you like? High five!"
this is in imitation of a British comedian who poses as "Borat" a journalist from Kazakhstan...


Maybe we should blame his sister, the "number 4 prostitute in Kazakstan" ......

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RE: Wikipedia targetted by virus creators? - 11/7/2006 4:45:06 AM   
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Maybe it was the same people who framed Abramoff?

Or those traitors who are asking too many questions about Halliburton?


Nah... I think it was Judge Bork - He's still mad over that smear campaign.





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RE: Wikipedia targetted by virus creators? - 11/15/2006 7:09:34 PM   
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Borat rocks!!! as Borat might say......"yeesh, ina my country of Kazakhstan we has many scientist who put virus against the evil Uzbekis.....you like? High five!"

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