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Post by Lenny on Aug 6, 2007 18:03:49 GMT -5
New Virus announced by CNN I checked with Norton Antivirus and they are gearing up for this virus so I believe this is real. > > Sent to me last night. > > I checked snopes.com and this is for real. > > Get this sent around to your contacts ASAP.. > we don't need this spreading around. > > PLEASE FORWARD THIS WARNING AMONG FRIENDS, FAMILY AND CONTACTS: > > You should be alert during the next days: Do not open any > message with an attached file called 'Invitation' regardless of who > sent it, It is a virus that opens an Olympic Torch which 'burns' the > whole hard disc C of your computer.. This virus will be received > from someone who has your e-mail address in his/her contact list, > that is why you should send this e-mail to all your contacts. It is > better to receive this message 25 times than to receive the virus > and open it. > > If you receive a mail called 'invitation', though sent by a friend, > do not open it and shut down your computer immediately. This > is the worst virus announced by CNN, it has been classified by > Microsoft as the most destructive virus ever. This virus was > discovered by McAfee yesterday, and there is no repair yet > for this kind of virus. This virus simply destroys the Zero > Sector of the Hard Disc, where the vital information is kept > > SEND THIS E- MAIL TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW ,
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2007 18:15:11 GMT -5
Saw it on the TV. Just delete if you don't know who the person that is sending it.DELETE
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2007 18:20:11 GMT -5
I just dumped McAfee and bought a 1 year sub to Windows One Live Care Security Package for $49.95....I had suspected that the McAfee program was slowing down the PC speed (cable broadband).....sure nuff.....as soon as I came back up online....voila.....everything is working much faster.....waiting to see if my E-Mail pictures will appear from now on.....
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2007 19:47:37 GMT -5
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Post by Fran Gyomory on Aug 6, 2007 20:27:19 GMT -5
The virus that is REAL and checked with Snopes is the one that says....you have received an 3-card from a ... friend....neighbor...relative. It can even come from Blue Mountain. Do not open any ecards unless it names a person that you actually know. This is a horrible virus and snopes has verified it exists.
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Post by Fran Gyomory on Aug 6, 2007 20:34:47 GMT -5
You've received a greeting card from a school-mate!
You've received a greeting ecard from a class mate!
You've received a greeting ecard from a neighbour!
You've received a greeting postcard from a partner!
You've received a greeting postcard from a worshipper!
You've received a postcard from a family member!
You've received a postcard from a neighbour!
You've received a postcard from a worshipper!
You've received an ecard from a colleague!
Origins: Many
web sites offer a service that allows a user to send a customized "greeting card" (or "postcard") to a relative, friend, or acquaintance, delivered as an e-mail message containing a hyperlink which the recipient follows to visit the originating site and view the card. Sending out phony e-card notifications is therefore an effective method of camouflaging viruses and inducing unwitting recipients into clicking on links that install malicious programs onto their computers.
A wave of malicious messages (like the one reproduced above) sent out in June 2007 employed that very technique, arriving in inboxes bearing subject lines such as "You've received a postcard from a family member!" in an attempt to induce recipients into clicking links that install a variant of the Storm Trojan, "an aggressive piece of malware that has been hijacking computers to serve as attacker bots" since early in 2007.
NOTE: Readers should not confuse the real postcard/greeting card virus with the "Virtual Card for You" hoax that has been circulating for several years.
Last updated: 1 July 2007
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