Virus warning, is this for real ?

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I have just recieved this email from a friend and rung them to confirm they sent it.

Folks,

Take note especially on home pcs

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 filed 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, COPY THIS E-MAIL AND SEND IT TO
YOUR FRIENDS AND REMEMBER: IF YOU SEND IT TO THEM, YOU WILL BENEFIT ALL OF
US

As anybody heard of this, is it for real?

Cheers baxter
 
I hope it is not real. Although I do not get on my e-mail that often my luck I would get this virus. Please keep my up to date on this event.
 
Well, it's common sense not to open ANY attachment that you are not expecting. And even if you do expect them be cautious.

Just don't open any attachment you are not sure about. Simple.
Oh, and closing the e-mail and shutting down the computer wont get rid of the e-mail :P Just delete anything you aren't sure of.
 
It's not real lol. I'd say it's like one of those chain letters. If it were real you would hear it all over and there would be people making fixes for it and microsoft making fixes for it.

No worries.
 
It is an hoax, sorry,

The guys on the UK Xp forum advise, ignore, do not forward, delete.

Gee, what some guys do for kicks.
 
I bet there was an attatchment with that chain letter, filename: virusfix.exe
XD
 
"SEND THIS E-MAIL TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW"

"I'd say it's like one of those chain letters."

Don't be so silly, of course it's real :rolleyes:
 
I've never understood the whole 'Virus Warning' email stuff. If you're dumb enough to be opening attachments from people you don't know then you're surely going to catch something anyway at some point - be it through email or some dodgy page in IE. No amount of warnings will help.
 
*Wipes sweat off forehead* I am glad it is fake. What really is the point of those chain letters? As far I am concerned they are a waste of memory in your e-mail and a waste of human mankind time. OMG!!! QUICK GET THIS LETTER TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS YOU CAN QUICK QUICK!!!! I mean come on people don't you have anything better to do? If not you can come an mow my grass 8D
 
Laivasse said:
I've never understood the whole 'Virus Warning' email stuff. If you're dumb enough to be opening attachments from people you don't know then you're surely going to catch something anyway at some point - be it through email or some dodgy page in IE. No amount of warnings will help.

"This virus will be received from someone who has
your e-mail address in his/her contact! list"
 
Any one here ever saw the writing on the one-dollar bill? It’s got something similar to "log on to www.xxxx!@#$%^^xxxxxxx.com, see where this dollar bill has been" so their site would record how many hits, and the ones whom got the most hits will earn bragging rights?
Same thing here, but this is got hoaxes intentions attached to it: It works like a dummy virus, in order for virus to mass mail itself by it’s own SMTP engine, this is more like handicapped virus and needs victim to mail it. Once victim mails it to five friends and each of the five friends mails it to more friends, then it will become an out of control SPAM that will show up at your door steps every other day, like a harmless worm.
That’s all they want and you fell for the hoax. You have to level yourselves down to a kid to understand what I’m talking about.
Kids like to send this type of hoax emails, forewarning a would be a victim and advice them to forward it. The idea is not the virus at all, the idea is that they want to see how far this mail travels, and if this email comes back to the original creator, well that’s a jackboot and such a creator would have his/her bragging rights amongst peers.


I call this “The Six degrees of separation Email”
 
PLEASE FORWARD THIS ... AMONG FRIENDS

Nobody who knows what they are doing with Internet/banking/credit card/etc. security will ever ever send a warning email with that kind of rhetoric unless it's a joke or they're not serious (or they're a cretin - there's probably a handful). Worst case scenario, a phisherman steals your identity and your girlfriend, destroying your computer in the process. Best case scenario, you wind up with twice as much spam as you had before. You can always delete them - what's the harm? :rolleyes:
 
baxter said:
I have just recieved this email from a friend and rung them to confirm they sent it.

Folks,

Take note especially on home pcs

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 filed 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, COPY THIS E-MAIL AND SEND IT TO
YOUR FRIENDS AND REMEMBER: IF YOU SEND IT TO THEM, YOU WILL BENEFIT ALL OF
US

As anybody heard of this, is it for real?

Cheers baxter

Sounds bull to me. Just another chain letter. There isnt even any proof or a link to cnn to show it.
 
giant384 said:
"This virus will be received from someone who has
your e-mail address in his/her contact! list"

Whups, didn't read it thoroughly.

Still, the mail is clearly tripe. It doesn't even name the virus and repeatedly tries to justify itself by saying stuff like 'Wouldn't it be better to send this mail to loads of people than get a virus just ONCE? eh? eh??' It's still reckless to be opening *any* exe's you're not sure of, and behaviour like that will see you infected at some point, so even legit warning mails are fairly redundant.
 
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