eBay strangeness

From: Doug Yowza <yowza_at_yowza.com>
Date: Thu Oct 8 00:50:13 1998

On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Bob Wood wrote:

> Someone has listed an Altair 4k memory board. The eBay item number is
> 34468468. Whenever I go to this listing, my computer locks up. It has
> happened every time I have tried since earlier in the day. Only happens
> with this listing and no others. It seems to happen as soon as eBay
> starts to download the photo from the seller's web site. I have never
> experienced this with any other eBay auction.

This is the famous eBay Altair virus. I'd stay away from eBay if I were
you.

(Try hitting escape duing the page load, it's just that the guy put some
HUGE graphics in his listing, so it takes forever to load if you've got a
slow link.)

-- Doug
Received on Thu Oct 08 1998 - 00:50:13 BST