Virus Alert - Better Safe than Sorry - Computers

Subject: Fw: Huge Virus Coming!!
HUGE VIRUS COMING ! PLEASE READ & FORWARD !


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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.

[guest123009]

http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/postcard.asp

[travelling_man]

From the snopes site that FMH linked:

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.'



So thanks for the "warning" (I guess) about something that has been out for 3 years or more. But you actually didn't check snopes.com - you copied and pasted an email that you got. If you had actually check you would have found the same page FMH linked.

well thanks for stating the obvious - i didn't type one word nor did I actually look at any of the sites.......a friend sent it to me at work(that works in the media industry so I didn't question it unfortantely)....i put it up several places..and while some people said thanks others had to let me know how stupid I was....your right i just copied and pasted it in the places i thought it might help if others wanted to go look etc...etc..etc...

Honestly, I'd rather blindly trust a friend and be wrong then not warn others if it was real. I'll probably do the same next time and say "BETTER SAFE THAN SORRY" meaning go check it out if you want too if someone I trust sends me something similar.

[guest123009]

Best to check snopes first to avoid propagating misinformation.

[Ezmerelda]

yummy. Was I the only person to notice the Ad on snopes is astroglide??