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Miscreants have crammed malware into a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation about today's supposed Mayan Apocalypse. If someone emails you a .ppt slideshow titled Will the world end in 2012?, give it a wide berth unless the world really does end today and you're feeling wild. The booby-trapped presentation packs Visual Basic …

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  1. jake Silver badge

    Whatever. It's SOLSTICE! Celebrate!

    The days are going to be getting longer now! Spring is coming! Woo-hoo! This is a good thing!

    (Idiots predicting doom, based on moronic opinions on "long count", really need their heads examining ... The Maya people never actually thought, or predicted, such scenarios ...)

    1. Stacy
      Happy

      Re: Whatever. It's SOLSTICE! Celebrate!

      I hate to burst your bubble, but whilst the days are going to get longer (woohoo as you say) winter has to come before spring :) (of course you are right, spring is coming, it just has to wait for winter first...)

      1. jake Silver badge

        @Stacy: (was: Re: Whatever. It's SOLSTICE! Celebrate!)

        Seasons are a construct ... Solstice is reality.

        1. Androgynous Crackwhore

          @Stacy: (was: Whatever. It's SOLSTICE! Celebrate!)

          It's light at the end of the tunnel... so to speak :D

        2. AceRimmer
          FAIL

          Re: @Stacy: (was: Whatever. It's SOLSTICE! Celebrate!)

          "Seasons are a construct "

          Really? Try looking outside once in a while and pay attention to what nature is telling you

        3. Euripides Pants
          Unhappy

          Re: Seasons are a construct

          Nope, seasons are real - its friggin cold outside.

      2. Tom 7

        Re: Whatever. It's SOLSTICE! Celebrate!

        But winter doesn’t have to be cold. Its more likely to be but its not compulsory.

      3. What of IT?
        Happy

        Re: Whatever. It's SOLSTICE! Celebrate!

        In the frozen land of Nador, they were forced to eat Robin's minstrels.

        Winter changed into Spring.

        Spring changed into Summer.

        Summer changed back into Winter.

        and Winter gave Spring and Summer a miss and went straight on into Autumn.

        1. Anonymous Coward
          Anonymous Coward

          Re: Whatever. It's SOLSTICE! Celebrate!

          "and Winter gave Spring and Summer a miss and went straight on into Autumn."

          Sounds like the British climate ...

    2. Ian Yates
      Pint

      Re: Whatever. It's SOLSTICE! Celebrate!

      I truly hope that nothing happens "today" (which, let's face it, means something different depending on where you are on the Earth) that could be taken to be the "cataclysm"... it would make all the usual believers of such prophecies even more insufferable.

      Anyway; last orders gentlemen.

    3. NomNomNom

      Re: Whatever. It's SOLSTICE! Celebrate!

      "Idiots predicting doom, based on moronic opinions on "long count", really need their heads examining "

      oh right and i suppose you know more about predictions than all the Mayins combined

      1. Uffish

        @ Nomnomnom

        I predict that he does.

    4. Psyx
      Thumb Up

      Re: Whatever. It's SOLSTICE! Celebrate!

      "Spring is coming!"

      Erm... you know it's the first day of Winter, right?

  2. LarsG

    End of the world?

    Thank God I won't have to pay my tax bill....

    1. Evil Auditor Silver badge

      Re: End of the world?

      What the heck am I doing at work?!

    2. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      > Thank God I won't have to pay my tax bill....

      I think US gov feels the same.

      Would certainly explain all the procrastination.

  3. Anonymous Coward
    Pint

    Well, no ;-)

    "If someone emails you a .ppt slideshow titled Will the world end in 2012?, give it a wide berth unless the world really does end today and you're feeling wild.".

    Well, with all due respect El Reg but should the world does end (which I kinda doubt) then I can think of a whole lot more wild things to do then opening a Microsoft PowerPoint file...

    But each to his own ;-)

  4. ElReg!comments!Pierre

    More like rickrolling

    That's so ancient and innocuous that it is more akin to rickrolling than to a real security threat.

    I am pretty sure that it was intended as such by its creators (most likely a couple of high-school students). Silly, yes. Dangerous? Not by any stretch of the imagination.

    That goes straight in the penissillyn category... ;-)

    1. Androgynous Crackwhore
      Mushroom

      Re: More like rickrolling

      We're no strangers to love

      You know the rules ... and so do I

      A full commitment's what I'm ... thinkin' of

      You wouldn't get this from any other guy

      I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling

      Gotta make you ... understand

      Never gonna give you up

      Never gonna let you down

      Never gonna run around and desert you

      Never gonna make you cry

      Never gonna say goodbye

      Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you

      We've known each other ... for so long

      Your heart's been aching, but ... you're too shy to say it

      Inside we both know what's been ... goin' on

      We know the game and we're ... gonna play it

      And if you ask me how I'm feeling

      Don't tell me you're to ... blind to see

      Never gonna give you up

      Never gonna let you down

      Never gonna run around and desert you

      Never gonna make you cry

      Never gonna say goodbye

      Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you

      Never gonna give you up

      Never gonna let you down

      Never gonna run around and desert you

      Never gonna make you cry

      Never gonna say goodbye

      Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you

      Oooooooooh ... give you up

      Oooooooooh ... give you up

      Never gonna give never gonna give

      Give you up

      Never gonna give never gonna give

      Give you up

      We've known each other ... for so long

      Your heart's been aching, but ... you're too shy to say it

      Inside we both know what's been ... goin' on

      We know the game and we're ... gonna play it

      I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling

      Gotta make you ... understand

      Never gonna give you up

      Never gonna let you down

      Never gonna run around and desert you

      Never gonna make you cry

      Never gonna say goodbye

      Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you

      Never gonna give you up

      Never gonna let you down

      Never gonna run around and desert you

      Never gonna make you cry

      Never gonna say goodbye

      Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you

      Never gonna give you up

      Never gonna let you down

      Never gonna run around and desert you

      Never gonna make you cry

      Never gonna say goodbye

      Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you

      1. Thomas 4
        Thumb Up

        Re: More like rickrolling

        Neat. I've never been rickrolled in purely text format before.

      2. NomNomNom

        Re: More like rickrolling

        shit i expanded the comment

      3. Swarthy
        Go

        Re: More like rickrolling

        Rick-rolling sheet music?

        Obligitory XKCD

  5. Michael H.F. Wilkinson Silver badge
    Happy

    DARN!!

    Another application not available for Linux, or Mac!!! I feel left out!

  6. Khaptain Silver badge

    Big Bang

    The world in fact did end and we went through the equivalant of a Big Bang this morning at 07:00 ( GMT +1).

    It was a rather non exciting event and the Univeral Counsel has advised us to continue as normal. Apparently he also sent out a PPT which list intructions on how to behave during the next Big Bang.

    The Phrase "The End of the World is Nigh" was actually a misconception. What the origianl auther really meant to say was "The End of the World is a NightClub in Thornsbury" but apparetly he had had one too many Mai Tais and didn't actually manage to finish his phrase.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Big Bang

      above post reminds me somewhat of hitchhikers guide to the galaxy.

      1. Mage Silver badge

        Re: Big Bang & Adams

        It's been mathematically proven that each volume has less new content. The next one can be generated automatically.

        Not sure why they paid someone to do the recent volume.

    2. Darkwolf

      Re: Big Bang

      Douglas Adams, go back to bed, your dead.

    3. Chris Holt

      Re: Big Bang

      Don't forget to grab a bag of peanuts. And a towel.

    4. Anonymous Coward
      Gimp

      Re: Big Bang

      The first rule of Thornsbury NightClub is...

    5. Anonymous Coward
      Mushroom

      Re: Big Bang

      "The End of the World is a NightClub in Thornsbury"

      I thought it was a pub on the Royal Mile, Edinburgh.... ?

  7. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    I told ya

    I saw the "rock-clock" (TM) in TiKAL bitch.

    dirt runways, and adobe brick airlines!

    Time to pull the plug on all the bullshit now.

    Like uh,

    The only thing ending is all our rights.

    Like the only terrorists are big government and banks.

    I said enough.

    Don't ask me to serve jury without nullification up front.

    Don't ask me to turn in guns. NONE

    Don't ask me to get an injection.

    These will cost your life!

  8. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    end of the 5th age?

    the fifth age? sounds like a Discordian celebration is due then.

  9. Mage Silver badge
    Alien

    Time to die

    Obligatory

    I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I've watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.

    1. CASIOMS-8V
      Pint

      Re: Time to die

      Never gets old no matter how many times I hear that. One of the reasons why Bladerunner has been for many years and will most likely continue to be my favorite film.

      thanks for lifting up the end of a hard day

  10. Graham Marsden
    Mushroom

    No Boom today...

    ... Boom tomorrow. There's always a Boom tomorrow

    - Susan Ivanova

    1. Magani
      Mushroom

      Re: No Boom today...

      "Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom!"

      Marvin the Martian

  11. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    If the Everett multi universe intepretation is correct

    Then one out of a nearly infinite number of parallel Universes experienced the End of Days yesterday.

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