Almost embarrassed to ask, viral mail, or genuine threat?

[mrcraig]

well somethings happened here in derby, my mate says he was watching the departed on sly drama,when the channel distorted for a min then it went to the vm security fraud message. he checked other channels and its the same.he has 342 channels of security fraud message.not impressed at all. so ive turned my box off to be safe

[martinbox]

Originally Posted by mrcraig

well somethings happened here in derby, my mate says he was watching the departed on sly drama,when the channel distorted for a min then it went to the vm security fraud message. he checked other channels and its the same.he has 342 channels of security fraud message.not impressed at all. so ive turned my box off to be safe

seems serious then :s

[fastford]

Originally Posted by mrcraig

well somethings happened here in derby, my mate says he was watching the departed on sly drama,when the channel distorted for a min then it went to the vm security fraud message. he checked other channels and its the same.he has 342 channels of security fraud message.not impressed at all. so ive turned my box off to be safe

did it try to update 1st?

[dten2005]

Originally Posted by mrcraig

well somethings happened here in derby, my mate says he was watching the departed on sly drama,when the channel distorted for a min then it went to the vm security fraud message. he checked other channels and its the same.he has 342 channels of security fraud message.not impressed at all. so ive turned my box off to be safe

sure you're not winding people up?

With vermin in attack mode theres a hell of a lot of paranoia about.

[donovan2123]

Originally Posted by mrcraig

well somethings happened here in derby, my mate says he was watching the departed on sly drama,when the channel distorted for a min then it went to the vm security fraud message. he checked other channels and its the same.he has 342 channels of security fraud message.not impressed at all. so ive turned my box off to be safe

Lol i really dont believe the above!
yes there may be a security message saying the box is illegal blah blah blah. Remeber the reason we can see this message is because vm know illegal boxs also find test channels which vm box's dont.

I do find all this stuff funny. As pointed out the only thing they can do is update the keys on network. They have no access to illegal boxs if they did it wouldnt be key rolls were getting.

[mrcraig]

[quote=mrcraig;250869]well somethings happened here in derby, my mate says he was watching the departed on sly drama,when the channel distorted for a min then it went to the vm security fraud message. he checked other channels and its the same.he has 342 channels of security fraud message.not impressed at all. so ive turned my box off to be safe[/quote
well guys i went round to see my mates box.it turns out the **** was on a wind up,i gave him a few digs for causing me so much stress.and im sorry if i worried a few of you guys..

[Macabre]

Originally Posted by rubar

Evening.

First off thanks to those involved in rolling out new keys and everyone posting advice over the last couple of days.

I’ve just received my second text message saying:

“Unplug your box first thing in the morning and leave off till tea time v*rg*n sending virus down cable to kill boxes, pass this in to other people.”

I’m willing to put this down to viral messaging, but seeing as I have no knowledge of how cable boxes work I thought is best to ask around before I start telling people its ok.

So what’s the general consensus?


(Facts would be appreciated rather opinions, or people “willing to bet”)


Cheers...........

I heard that they have hired , mini me from ( austin powers fame )
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and tattoo from " fantasy island fame "
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and are going to send them down the cable and shoot anyone who is at it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[quinnyboy]

I've had umpteen phone calls saying the same thing - is there no way they could spike the boxes?

[rubar]

Thanks for the replies.

The people that were asking me about viruses were friends and family who bought the box because they saw mine first. So rightly or not I felt a bit of responsibility to put their minds at ease. Even if I knew it was a daft question

Cheers…………..