Symantec Sends False Warning of 'Full-Scale Internet Meltdown'

zekrahminator · Sep 23, 2007

Any of Symantec's corporate customers got quite the scare on Friday night, when Symantec's automatic security servers sent warning of a level 4 alert. Symantec uses a 1-4 scale for threats, 1 for minor inconvenience, 4 for what Neowin calls a "full-scale internet meltdown". Symantec has rarely issued even a level 3, and has never issued a level 4 alert. However, the careful reader would have seen this line of text at the bottom of the E-mail, buried in a sea of hyperlinks.

Summary: threatcon test threatkhanh otrs

Soon afterwords, Symantec released an official statement, saying that the level 4 alert was merely a test.

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wazzledoozle · Sep 23, 2007

Wheres a tinfoil hat when you need one?

PVTCaboose1337 · Sep 23, 2007

That was no mistake... then fucked up and then call it a mistake.

zekrahminator · Sep 23, 2007

wazzledoozle said:
Wheres a tinfoil hat when you need one?

I can make tin foil hats

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theonetruewill · Sep 23, 2007

Temp Ban Zek now! Please Wazzle!

He's too close to 5000 posts!

Jess Stingray · Sep 23, 2007

So can I, but they look more like rectangles.

zekrahminator · Sep 23, 2007

theonetruewill said:
Temp Ban Zek now! Please Wazzle! He's too close to 5000 posts!

Too late

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theonetruewill · Sep 23, 2007

zekrahminator said:
Too late .

NO

Jess Stingray · Sep 23, 2007

I kinda wanted to see a full scale Internet war. And cue...

Wait... I'll make a movie in Paint about it!

LonGun · Sep 23, 2007

Symantec never got it right. From protection to back up & restore, narrow down to costs, worst to uninstall. Shame on them.

LonGun · Sep 23, 2007

OO

theonetruewill said:
NO

You made my windows "scroll" man agRRR!!! :slap:

Bob The Fish · Sep 23, 2007

So does level 4 make it a, Red Alert?

3991vhtes · Sep 23, 2007

I think so

Jess Stingray · Sep 23, 2007

Yeah. LVL 4 is like, imminent meltdown, like the Internet's Chernobyl.

PVTCaboose1337 · Sep 23, 2007

Ben Clarke said:
Yeah. LVL 4 is like, imminent meltdown, like the Internet's Chernobyl.

Thats a very nice way to describe it.

Jess Stingray · Sep 23, 2007

Yup, I know.

FreedomEclipse · Sep 23, 2007

Ben Clarke said:
Yeah. LVL 4 is like, imminent meltdown, like the Internet's Chernobyl.

I would say its more like george bush thinking that little red button is actually a computer game.........

(those of you who have seen 2DTV will get this joke....)

Hence accidentally wiping half the earth leaving George Micheal with a slight funny taste in his mouth....

while the ants struggle to rebuild their hives the birds bake pies & bread n butter pudding for bake sales.....

oh look....ozzy osborne is out in force with a straw....

LonGun · Sep 23, 2007

lil red button? you mean to launch the missles?

FreedomEclipse · Sep 23, 2007

LonGun said:
lil red button? you mean to launch the missles?

no i mean to defrib a roast turkey

TUngsten · Sep 23, 2007

yep, it's the EASY button

hat · Sep 23, 2007

How does the internet meltdown?

zekrahminator · Sep 23, 2007

It expands and sags like a peep in a microwave oven.

PVTCaboose1337 · Sep 23, 2007

pt · Sep 24, 2007

PVTCaboose1337 said:

i dk where you got that, but on the button is written "easy" in Portuguese

PVTCaboose1337 · Sep 24, 2007

How do you say easy in Portuguese? I want that one.

Oh PT your just joking your primary language is spanish

Edit: O its the same in Portuguese.

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