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Jim
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Posted: Mon Jun 30th, 2008 09:03 pm |
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THIS IS TRUE!!!!!!!!!!!!! CHECK OUT SNOPES FOR MORE INFO……………..
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http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/postcard.asp
Hi All, I checked Snopes (URL above , and it is for real!!
Get this E-m ail 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
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 contact s 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
Snopes lists all the names it could come in.
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"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." -- John Kenneth Galbraith
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Abe Ross
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Posted: Wed Jul 2nd, 2008 01:56 am |
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Jim,
Go down toward the bottom of the Snopes site and they say:
NOTE: Readers should take particular care not to confuse the real postcard/greeting card virus with a number of virus-related hoaxes that have been circulating for several years. A variety of messages forwarded by well-intended people to warn others about the Postcard virus contribute to this confusion by including within them links to our article about the "Virtual Card for You" hoax (or by mistakenly incorporating elements from that hoax into their warnings). Other versions of the postcard virus warning erroneously combine it with elements of the Invitation virus hoax . . .
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.'
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