FYI TO ALL.
VIRUS COMING !
I checked with Norton Anti-Virus, and they are gearing up for this virus!
I checked Snopes, 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 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.
COPY THIS E-MAIL, AND SEND IT TO YOUR FRIENDS.
REMEMBER: IF YOU SEND IT TO THEM, YOU WILL BENEFIT ALL OF US
By: Grey Area - 2nd December 2010 at 17:33
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By: Bob - 2nd December 2010 at 11:59
Symantec’s final words on this hoax….
Put simply, if you receive an email warning of impending doom and urging you to forward it on to friends and family, it’s probably, almost certainly, practically guaranteed to be a hoax.
Most people who forward on these chain-hoaxes—for want of a better term—do so from a combination of fear and of wanting to help others (and hopefully be rewarded with thanks for doing so). But what if the email contained a real, disguised virus—a virus for which no security vendor yet had a solution? A virus that really was programmed to “burn the whole hard disk C of your computer” just after you forwarded the email on to all your contacts. And imagine the same thing happened to those contacts. Would they thank you then? Probably not.
By: Sky High - 2nd December 2010 at 10:50
“……it is amazing how many people like to peddle this around the net…..” and more amazing still that so many people are so gullible. You would have thought that with all the exposure to spam and phishing everyone would be ulta-careful before opening anything.
By: LightningMk6 - 2nd December 2010 at 10:40
l checked Snopes, it is for real.
Snopes..check the logo out!!!!!
By: LightningMk6 - 2nd December 2010 at 10:35
The virus warning is a hoax, it is amazing how many people like to peddle this around the net, before googling the problem first as said previously. The message posted bears a remarkable resemblance to this. Remember getting this sent round years back, seems it is doing the rounds yet again.
By: Sky High - 2nd December 2010 at 10:34
I don’t trust anything I don’t recognise and only then then very warily. This has all the hallmarks of spam/phishing of some sort and mine will be kicked into the spam folder and thence to the bin. Remeber 99% of virus problems are because spam mails are opened and the malware gets installed.
By: nitromaniac - 2nd December 2010 at 10:26
Have you tried Googling ‘Postcard from Hallmark’?.:rolleyes:
This is an old scam that keeps cropping up.
Brian
l checked Snopes, it is for real.
By: Pen Pusher - 2nd December 2010 at 10:21
Have you tried Googling ‘Postcard from Hallmark’?.:rolleyes:
This is an old scam that keeps cropping up.
Brian
By: inkworm - 2nd December 2010 at 09:50
I’ve been getting two or three of these emails per month for I don’t know how many years now to a couple of domain accounts.
Safest thing is to delete anything you’re unsure of, trouble is when someone wants to send a legit email (as I’ve tried in the past) and it’s bounced back for looking a bit like spam.
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