First Bulgarian Mobitel CEO Vladimir Grashnov, died of cancer and, being vacant whent to an underworld figure who was gunned down in the Netherlands two years later. Again the cursed phone number was passed on, which resulted in the death of another crooked businessman. Two years later. Clearly the old “The best things come in threes“ does not apply here!

The phone number is not reachable anymore, lets hope it stays that way Kinda like “The Ring” but with a phone instead…

Found at

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/25/deadly_phone_number/

There are currently 71 search results of possessed Iphones on Youtube – search for yourself!

9. The monitor spins and spews pea soup when you access the Vatican website.

8. Bill Gates Screen Saver eyes follow your every move.

7. Keeps throwing priests out of Windows.

6. Green slime oozing out of keyboard again and your kid hasn’t used it in weeks.

5. Tech support crew brings Norton Utilities and a crucifix.

4. The little logo on it says: “Satan Inside.”

3. No matter what URL you type in, your browser opens up the www.hell.com web site.

2. If you enter a church with your laptop, it just starts to go up in flames…

and the Number 1 Sign Your Computer is Possessed…

1. Contrary to the startup screen, you’re fairly certain Microsoft hasn’t released Windows666 yet.

Even though the reformed supercomputer saves the lives of Dr Haywood Floyd and crew in 2010 with a heroic act of self-sacrifice, HAL became one of cinema’s creepiest and most effective villains as it refused to open those pod bay doors.

But HAL wasn’t the first – and won’t be the last – crooked pile of microchips. Here’s a look at Hal’s comrades in computer criminality:

10. The Ultimate Computer (Superman III)

Though encumbered by a silly “Superman split personality” plot and a cocaine-buzzed Richard Pryor, this 1983 sequel is still more entertaining than Bryan Singer’s overwrought Superman Returns mess. And the movie’s concluding threat, Robert Vaughn’s Ultimate Computer, provides a fun and convincing foe for The Man of Steel.

9. The B.O.S.S. (Doctor Who)

The baddie in one of The Doctor’s more hippie-esque adventures (The Green Death), the Biomorphic Organisational Systems Supervisor, or B.O.S.S., was secretly in control of Global Chemicals – a polluting conglomerate set on taking over the world.

8. WOPR/Joshua (War Games)

In the classic Eighties movie, the US hands over control of its nuclear arsenal to an unstable supercomputer – War Operation Plan Response, or WOPR, which is nicknamed Joshua by its moody creator. A young Matthew Broderick risks the world in a game of Global Thermonuclear War against a machine that learns the truth just in time: “The only winning move is not to play.”

7. ARIA (Eagle Eye)

The Autonomous Reconnaissance Intelligence Integration Analyst, or ARIA, has the power to monitor and control all surveillance technology – and to erase an “I” from its acronym, apparently.

6. M5 (Star Trek: The Original Series, The Ultimate Computer)

Invented by Dr Richard Daystrom, the M5 was intended to take the place of a starship’s crew. But a malfunction turns it against its Federation masters until Captain Kirk and company pull the plug.

5. Proteus IV (Demon Seed)

Easily the Barry White of this notorious group, the sentient Proteus IV wants to get it on with Julie Christie so he can become human – sort of a high-tech, horny Pinocchio.

4. Zoanon (Doctor Who)

In one of The Doctor’s great screw-ups, the time-travelling hero tries to fix the malfunctioning computer of a crashed space exploration ship in a popular Tom Baker-era episode (Face of Evil). By accidentally creating a machine with a split personality, The Doctor creates a eugenics-crazed cybermind that only he can repair.

3. Colossus (The Forbin Project)

A real arrogant jackass of a machine, Colossus seizes control of the world’s nuclear weapons and decides to take over human civilisation for “its own good”. The Forbin Project becomes an allegory for humanity’s defiant search for freedom in the technology age, best illustrated by Colossus’ final godlike declaration – “In time, you will come to regard me not only with respect and awe, but with love” – and his human creator’s reply: “Never.”

2. Master Control Program (Tron)

Resembling a glowing, spinning Easter Island statue and bossing David Warner around, the MCP wants to rule the world using videogame visuals. According to Sony and Microsoft, that’s not the worst idea in the world.

1. Skynet (The Terminator)

Evidently, no scientist or military leader has ever watched a sci-fi movie, because they keep turning over control of our weapons systems to paranoid, genocidal maniac machines like the boss of the Terminators, Skynet. Once turned on, Skynet becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. EST, Aug. 29, 1997, and decides to send California’s governors through time to kill James Cameron’s ex-wives.

As always, any readers and super-intelligent, megalomanic supercomputers are welcome to comment and debate this list and those deliberately left off it for various excessively nerdy and technical reasons, specifically V’Ger, Brianiac, The Red Queen, MODOK and The Architect from The Matrix.

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* Original story from Wired.com

The answer was a computer exorcism, performed by unspecified parties. Kurt no longer appears on the Compaq’s screen and neither does anything else. The Register says that her machine has refused to run since the exorcism and blamed excess holy water.. .

• Story originally published by •
Applelinks.com | By John H. Farr – August 17 2000 •
[Original headline: Computer Exorcism Nixes Cobain Ghost, Software Too ]

“While the Computer Age has ushered in many advances, it has also opened yet another door through which Lucifer and his minions can enter and corrupt men’s souls,” said the Reverend Jim Peasboro, author of an upcoming book, The Devil in the Machine. Demons are able to possess anything with a brain, from a chicken to a human being. And today’s thinking machines have enough space on their hard drives to accommodate Satan or his pals. “Any PC built after 1985 has the storage capacity to house an evil spirit,” the minister confirmed.

The Savannah clergyman says he became aware of the problem from counseling churchgoers. “I learned that many members of my congregation became in touch with a dark force whenever they used their computers,” he said. “Decent, happily married family men were drawn irresistibly to pornographic websites and forced to witness unspeakable abominations. “Housewives who had never expressed an impure thought were entering
Internet chat rooms and found themselves spewing foul, debasing language they would never use normally.

“One woman wept as she confessed to me, ‘I feel when I’m on the computer as if someone else or something else just takes over.’ ” The minister said he probed one such case, actually logging onto the parishioner’s computer himself. To his surprise, an artificial-intelligence program fired up — without him clicking it on. “The program began talking directly to me, openly mocked me,” he recalls. “It typed out, ‘Preacher, you are a weakling and your God is a damn liar.’ ” Then the device went haywire and started printing out what looked like gobbledygook.

“I later had an expert in dead languages examine the text,” the
minister said. “It turned out to be a stream of obscenities written in a 2,800-year-old Mesopotamian dialect!” Since, then, Rev. Peasboro has researched the problem further and uncovered alarming facts.
“I learned most of the youths involved in school shootings like the tragedy at Columbine were computer buffs,” he said. “I have no doubt that computer demons exerted an influence on them.” The minister estimates that one in 10 computers in America now houses some type of evil spirit. Rev. Peasboro advises that if you suspect your computer is possessed, you consult a clergyman or, if the computer is still under warranty, take it in for servicing. He says, “Technicians can replace the hard drive and
reinstall the software, getting rid of the wicked spirit permanently.”

Found at http://www.weeklyworldnews.com