- In addition to the coronavirus, would our smartphones be threatened by a computer virus?
- This is affirmed by a widely relayed message, about an alleged video entitled "Dance of the dad".
- It is an intoxication, which takes up an old message from 2015.
Does a virus of a very different kind prevail alongside the epidemic of coronavirus which plunged France into a situation of confinement?
A message relayed by word of mouth suggests: "Tell all the contacts on your list not to accept a video called * DANCE OF THE DAD. It's a virus that formats your cell phone. Be careful, it's very dangerous. Pass it to your list because people open it thinking it's a joke. It is broadcast on the radio today. Pass them on to anyone you can. "
But it is an intoxication, taking up a false alarm five years old.
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In 2015, an identical message was circulating about a virus then called "Dance of the Pope". As noted by the American fact-checking site Snopes at the time, this alert had not been broadcast on any radio station.
In addition, the sentence "It is broadcast on the radio today", which suggests that the virus is transmitted on the air (even if we can hardly imagine how ...) is a literal and incorrect translation of the sentence of the English message " They announced it today on the radio ”, confirming that this is indeed a recovery from this intoxication.
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