Virus Warning Hoaxes
Have you ever received an email like this?
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,' regardless of who sent it to you. It is a
virus which opens A POSTCARD IMAGE, 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.
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.
(This is a 'warning hoax' feeding on a real virus. Read it all the way to the bottom on Snopes)
COPY THIS E-MAIL, AND SEND IT TO YOUR FRIENDS. REMEMBER: IF YOU SEND IT
TO THEM, YOU WILL BENEFIT ALL OF US.
FYI, Please take the time to read this e-mail below! Another VIRUS that will
seriously impact your computer and release access to your personal data!
Anyone-using Internet mail such as Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL and so on. This
information arrived this morning, Direct from both Microsoft and Norton.
Please send it to everybody you know who has access to the Internet.
You may receive an apparently harmless e-mail with a Power Point
presentation ' Life is Beautiful'
If you receive it DO NOT OPEN THE FILE UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, and delete
it immediately.
If you open this file, a message will appear on your screen saying:
'It is too late now, your life is no longer beautiful.'
Subsequently you will LOSE EVERYTHING IN YOUR PC, And the person who sent
it to you will gain access to your name, e-mail, and password.
This is a new virus which started to circulate on Saturday afternoon.
AOL has already confirmed the severity, and the anti-virus software's are
not capable of destroying it. The virus has been created by a hacker who
calls himself 'life owner'.
This is a another hoax,
Life is Beautiful
The second virus warning is also based on another virus hoax.
The Invitation
Hoax
McAfee has a page
on their site about this hoax.
If you read this you will see that it is word for word almost the same as
the second 'warning'.