Well OT

[ARW]

It is addictive.

[DerbyBorn]

"ARW" wrote in news:li1kh2$2r9$1@dont- email.me:

Virus threat!

[Robin]

** Not to be used without protective clothing near feminists. **

(I just tried it on 'er indoors and it asked questions like "Does your character live with both his parents?" when it didn't yet know the sex of the character.)

[spuorgelgoog]

It confuses Lord Peter Wimsey with Richard Hannay and Jackal.

Owain

[John Rumm]

Took over 60 questions to get to A.J. Raffles

[Johny B Good]

WARNING!

Infection BlockedURL: h_pub_akinator_com__www__delivery__afr_php?charset Infection: JS:Redirector-BJC [Trj]

It's got a trojan horse redirector.

[Huge]

It is.

And I had to go *really* obscure to beat it. Took 3 goes.

[The Natural Philosopher]

I defeated it because it asked 'is your character a girl' and because she was in fact a woman, I said 'no'

[The Natural Philosopher]

I beat it so many times it crashed.

Its pathetic. Keeps harping on about vampires and appears to not know anything about books written before 1980

[Bob Eager]

I tried it on 19th century and early 20th century books and it got them every time.

[The Natural Philosopher]

I would say it only actually got 5 out of about 40 right.

Amy Johnson, Amelia Earhart, Grace Hopper, Bagheera and Professor Plum.

It didn't know Sir Nigel Baroness Orczy Peter Pienaar Sax Rohmer Tony McPhee Patricia Holm Hoppy Unitaz Bill the Galactic Hero Eric Prince of Amber Tom Wolfe Hilary Putnam

And it kept asking the same questions..

[The Natural Philosopher]

Perhaps you only tried the 'ones everybody knows'

Rather than the 'ones that a lot of people know, but not you'

Oh It DID get 'Captain Nemo' but I think that was because he's been in films. Narrows the range.

Reminds me of the book title I used to defeat some silly party gamne

"The electric kool-aid acid test" is apparently not as well known as I thought.

[Bob Eager]

Ha! I doubt many *people* would these days (I do).

It got Irene Adler, though. Mind, that's been on TV.

I was thinking of Hoppy and his famous phrase "Shall I give him de woiks, boss?" only yesterday, strangely...

[The Natural Philosopher]

I own all but one of the saint books and then I discovered they were ALL on ebooks.

So if anyone wants the entire paperback collection -1, tatty as whatever culled from half a dozen publishers over 30 years in many different countries..

[Johny B Good]

So... Just you and me then? BTW, did you see the same trojan threat I saw?

Looking at the way the thread is progressing, it's little wonder that malware seems to be so successfully infecting windows machines in spite of 'security patches. Maybe they're all using *nix based distros (where the presence of such threats is largely of academic interest other than to protect smb connected windows boxes).

[Bob Eager]

I have a very large number, but never counted...

[John Rumm]

Could you be more specific?

Reported as what, and by what?

[John Rumm]

Ah, a malwaretizing style hack - probably why I did not see it since I run adblock.

More details on this one here:

[ARW]

That says "Unfortunately, the only antivirus detecting this threat is avast! " and I am running Avast which detected nothing.

[Lobster]

On 09 Apr 2014, The Natural Philosopher grunted:

Blimey, you are a man with too much time on his hands...!