A Virtual Card for You (E-mail hoax)

BubbleTrouble · Trooper Joined: Mar 01, 2004 Posts: 14 Location: Turkey

Recently a new virus was discovered that was classified by MICROSOFT www.microsoft.com and by MCAFEE www.mcafee.com to be the most damaging of all time! This virus was discovered late yesterday by MCAFEE and still there is no development of a vaccine!

This virus simply writes zeros on the hard drive, where the vital information for the operation of the PC is kept. The virus activates in the following manner:

1. By email it is received with the title 'A VIRTUAL CARD FOR YOU', when opening the message, it sends itself to all in the address list soon...

2. It hangs the machine, forcing the user to reboot the system.

3. AT the moment in which the keys ctrl+alt+del or the RESET button is pressed, it writes zeros to the hard drive making it unusable forever.

By the previous information, please, take precaution with the use of electronic mail and, of course, if you receive an email which you do not know the origin of, simply delete it without opening.

Please, send this message to the most people possible!!!!

In a few hours yesterday, this virus caused panic in New York, according to CNN www.cnn.com. Shocked

Tidus · Trooper Joined: Mar 20, 2004 Posts: 33 Location: Singapore

w00t,mcafee gotta earn big $

TonyKlein · Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2004 7:43 am Post subject:

This is no "incurable" virus, but indeed a very, very old hoax:

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/d...r.you.html

http://vil.mcafee.com/dispVirus.asp?virus_k=98893

http://www.europe.f-secure.com/hoaxes/vcredit.shtml

http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/hoaxes/virtualcard.html

http://www.antivirus.com/pc-cillin/vinf...rd+For+You

http://www3.ca.com/Virus/Virus.asp?ID=9725

http://www.norman.no/virus_info/a_virtu...hoax.shtml

tank863 · Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2004 4:14 pm Post subject:

I love the language at the end of the email:

Please, send this message to the most people possible!!!!

Perfect use of English...

Tank863


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