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[LiDDiS]

the story may be false, but i've heard of such stories that are real though (gotta love/hate/whatever (depends if you're the person in front of the screen) it when someone turned the screen brightness to 0 >.>)

 

I think this one is an urban legend, like the guy that called up about his 'cup holder' (CD-ROM Drive) being broken.

 

EDIT:I didn't see Tiq's snopes post. D:

Edited December 6, 2007 by LiDDiS

[★ candygirl]

http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/

 

An ancient site full of these types of stories

 

Like this one

Customer: "I need you to tell me what browser I am using. Is it Netscape 2.0? The reason I need to know is that I have read that Netscape 2.0 distributes a virus called Java."

 

A guy came into my office, in a real panic. He kept saying something about how his computer screen was shaking violently, and he thought it had a virus! Going down to the computer, I found that the picture on the screen was indeed shaking a lot, but I also noticed something else...a desk fan was placed right next to the monitor, which was plugged into the same power strip. I switched the fan off, and the picture stopped shaking. I told him to move the fan away from the monitor in future, to avoid that problem.

 

Later on I heard him telling a colleague that his desk fan had a virus, and he had to keep it away from the screen to stop it from infecting his computer.

[Incomplete]

It might cough in the PC's direction.