If you have both cats and dirt you may want to be wary of a new type of
worm that's infecting computers across Great Britain -- or computer, anyway. It's called an earthworm, and one of the five-inch variety stealthily found its way into the laptop of one Mark Taylor. He began receiving overheating errors and took his machine to a technician who promptly found the unfortunate invertebrate wedged in the cooling fan, slowly crisping thanks to the system's heat. Taylor thinks one of his cats dug up the worm, brought it inside, and then the poor thing crawled through one of the cooling vents on his notebook to flee its pursuer. We're not sure how it got separated from its ultra-high-tech-indestructible-super-space-cyber-suit, but surely somewhere Queen Slug-for-a-Butt is laughing.
[Via
Switched]
posted Feb 26th 2009 10:17AM
LOL!
wooo, i'm first for once in my life! :-D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWqtWUaHHBc
cool! why write worms when you can just use real ones?
"I've Got Worms."
- Lloyd Christmas, Dumb and Dumber
Now I'm going to go play Earthworm Jim. I'm going to get to the airplane level, then I'm gonna get angry because that level is hard and then I'll go back to playing TF2
Your girlfriend hopes to say that one day...
Is this consumer electronics news?
Who's gives a ratz azz!
It's new and it involves consumer electronics.
And this is a blog, so... yeah.
Also, didn't he smell a cooking worm? Filth.
Is anyone looking into the angle that this worm could be an agent of the RIAA on a suicide mission?
That title scared the crap out of me.
Same here. I thought it was a bloody internet-worm but couldn't see a cartoon worm photoshopped into the image. Thank god it was a real one!
That's nothing. I found a Trojan in my computer!
Don't ask ...
I saw the title, and thought "oh, those poor windows users, why don't they just get a mac and stop worrying"
I guess OSX is completely secure then
@Jack
Head in the sand is hardly an effective defense against viruses.
http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/inqtana_a.shtml - A concept virus that proves OSX isn't immune, just uninteresting to virus developers.
" I saw the title, and thought "oh, those poor windows users, why don't they just get a mac and stop worrying" "
Oh, poor pedestrians, why don't they just buy a porche and go easy on their dear little knees?
Screw you.
I do it with Ubuntu.
(not to say I'm not fond of my mac, of course..)
Absolutely, totally, completely agreed!!!!
I have a Centrino Laptop whose fan stopped.. but the computer still runs... slower though and sometimes i bring a hairdryer setting on cool to cool it down... when I read the title I thought that what hit my Laptop...now i'm wondering if i have a worm or other insect in my laptop
This happened in July - August ..
P.s. I have a new laptop
@Why should I have all the fun?
Was it there for virus protection?
+1 for the Earthworm Jim reference
Buuuurrrrrp
Asteroid race!
Damn cats....
Misleading title is extremely ignorant. You're better than this engadget, don't be like some attention whore tabloid.
hurry call teh doctor some one's humor got infected and is dying in agony!
I fail to see how that title is misleading.
In fact, it is completely accurate.
I suggest someone pick up his sense of humor he checked at the door.
@Chris: Misleading? Because it says "worm" instead of "earthworm"?
OMG, it's spreading. Chris has a bug up his ass!
A few days late on reporting this eh?
I have to stop reading both giz and engadget.
Isn't that basically where the term BUG originally came from? It was literally bugs getting into mainframes and shorting them out.
Yep thats true! And the term "debugging" was from the process of physically removing bugs from the inside of the computer.
Common misconception, but it goes back well before that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_bug
And the Yankees are going down this year. ;)
btw I remember a case of ants short-circuiting some power grids in the US. I think they sense the heat output and are attracted to it or something.
Fail!
The worm was probably trying to escape that monstrous green sweater the guy is wearing.
Heh, I actually came back to comment on that - so bad that I just couldn't get it out of my head :D
Is that Steve Job's brother?
Your EWJ reference warms my heart ;)! Long live Princess What's-Her-Name!
A perfect LOLcat moment, but struggling to come up with a caption...
"I's gotz wormz and deys be infectin ur computerz."
I came up with a pretty good LOLcat, then I thought "WTF am I doing?!?"
I cans cook wormburgers on your internetz?
I've seen this happen in desktops with the lizards in South Florida. They crawl up next to the nice warm CPU. Then the smart fan kicks on. Not usually enough torque to decapitate, so they just get stuck and die.
Just so you know... we don't all wear clothes from 70s sci-fi movies here in the UK. That chap is out there by himself...
way to squash my dreams, jerk. ;)
Looks awefully chavy to me...except there's less Burberry.
Man I miss Earthworm Jim!
I thought they were talking about a parasite of some kind (that's first thing that comes to mind when they mention worm together with cats/dogs). Mmmm crispy tapeworm!
See, this is why I run Linux, it's basically immune to... oh wait!