Y2K4 with XP

From: Habitant (berlutte_at_sympatico.ca)
Date: 01/04/04 

Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2004 19:31:42 -0500

http://www.deadbrain.co.uk/news/article_2004_01_01_0400.php

Millions fall victim to "dangerous" Y2K4 bug in Windows XP
1 Jan 2004

Millions of users of Microsoft's latest operating system have fallen
victim to a previously-undiscovered bug, it emerged today. The Y2K4
bug, which is present in some distributions of Windows XP, struck
computers at midnight last night when the year was supposed to
automatically change to 2004. Instead, affected computers present a
series of symptoms which render the systems useless and, in some
cases, dangerous.

"First of all the hard drive starts making a grating noise, then
read/write error messages appear on the screen, followed by three
general protection faults," said computer expert Doug Ramsbottom, who
has fallen victim to the bug. "Then after Windows XP has finished
booting as normal, a hundred message boxes appear on the screen
informing the user that there is a problem with the computer's date
setting."

"Once you click through all of them, the clock begins running
backwards at the rate of 14 hours per second; possibly faster. XP
won't let you change it and disables the mouse and keyboard," he
continued. "When the clock reaches 12pm on 31st January 49BC, Windows
Messenger pops up, starts logging in and then the computer reboots.
The process is repeated no matter how many times you go through this."
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Eeeeow, dreadful!

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