You receive an email. You click on it to retrieve the message. The computer screen shows numbers, charts, and files disappearing from the screen. The next message says your hard drive is slowly erasing. A crash is imminent. You panic. You haven’t backed up your files in months.
What to do? Pound the keys, push escape, or shut down the computer. You may even wonder why your virus checker didn’t find and stop the virus. Well by this time, you’re in a heart-constricting panic. Then you get a message across the screen: “Gotcha. This is a joke!!!