OT: Subject: FW: Huge Virus Coming... Please Read

[Tired of kit bashing]

I did check Snopes & this is a true virus that will be coming.

Dawn

----- Original Message -----

From: Bev Tryba

To: d2cats@wi.rr. com ; Howard Ehmke ; Linda Buechin ; Veronica Shea

Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 10:29 AM

Subject: FW: Huge Virus Coming... Please Read

POSTCARD FROM HALLMARK

I checked with Norton Anti-Virus, and they are gearing up for this virus!

I checked Snopes (URL above:), and it is for real!!

Get this E-mail message sent around to your contacts ASAP.

PLEASE FORWARD THIS WARNING AMONG FRIENDS, FAMILY AND CONTACTS!

You should be alert during the next few days. Do not open any message

with an attachment entitled 'POSTCARD FROM HALLMARK,' regardless of who sent

it to you. It is a virus which opens A POSTCARD IMAGE, which 'burns' the

whole ha rd disc C of your computer. This virus will be received from someone

who has your e-mail address in his/her contact list. This is the reason

why you need to 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' POSTCARD,' even though sent to you by a

friend, do not open it! 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.

COPY THIS E-MAIL, AND SEND IT TO YOUR FRIENDS.

REMEMBER: IF YOU SEND IT

TO THEM, YOU WILL BENEFIT ALL OF US

[The Creative Explorer]

Thanks for the heads-up, unfortunately this one comes back every year and is nothing more but a nice chain-letter or hoax.

The text below can be found on the McAfee website:

AVERT HOAX Notice!!

McAfee AVERT Labs would like to inform you of an email HOAX.

This email message is just a HOAX, currently we know of no other message that the user will receive about the HOAX as the initial email states. AVERT has not received any report of a user's hard drive being erased for opening the email.

We are advising users who receive the email to delete it and DO NOT pass it on as this is how an email HOAX propagates.

From http://antivirus.about.com/od/emailhoaxes/p/postcard.htm

Description:

A hoax. The Postcard from Hallmark virus hoax is a knock-off on the old A Virtual Card for You hoax. The Postcard from Hallmark hoax includes a link to a Snopes article which is worded in such a way that it appears the hoax warning is legitimate. It isn't. While greeting card scams do exist, they don't bear any resemblance to what's outlined in the hoax. Following is one example of the Postcard from Hallmark virus hoax:

Remember: Hoaxes are a waste of both time and money. Do your friends and family a real favor and please don't forward them on to others. And if you are tempted to forward something 'just in case', read the article Toxic Excuses instead.

Edited November 26, 2008 by Steef Hartither

[SteveG]

I did check Snopes & this is a true virus that will be coming.

Really .....apparently you didin't read the whole story. Here's a quote from Snopes;

"Although the Postcard virus is real, it isn't a "BIG VIRUS COMING" (it's already been around in multiple forms for a long time now), it will not "burn the whole hard disc" of your computer, CNN didn't classify it as the "worst virus" ever, and it doesn't arrive in messages bearing a subject line of 'Invitation.' "

OK....back to model buildng

[Zoom Zoom]

There are sure a lot of gullible souls who still believe everything that comes through their email. If it ever says "send it to all your friends" or "forward to everyone you know" and by doing so you are setting yourself up to confirm you have a working email to all the spammers in the world.

Just say "NO" to these kinds of emails, even if from friends. Don't open them, don't look at them, don't be a victim. And please, educate yourself about it. Snopes is a good source for information, but don't rely on anyone else telling you, find out for yourself.

[MrObsessive]

One thing that drives me nuts is when someone forwards something and it tells you "If you want to be blessed, please forward this message to 10 other folks you know".

That borders on being a "chain email/letter" which if I had the power, would send an electric shock the moment they hit the send button.

Also I get crazed when someone forwards an email, but it's not their original message..............Noooooo! It came from seven persons removed that you have to wade through to see what the original message was! As Bob said, more often than not, it's from folks you know you get that nonsense.

It's too easy to simply copy and paste!

Those I won't even open------it's usually someone from work, and when they ask me if I got it, I tell them no, because there were too many attachments to get through to it, so I deleted it.

That ends the chain email/letters from them.