A Warning For Your Computer

[OPC'n]

I got this email from my sister:


TWO SUBJECT LINES of which to be AWARE

Just verified this with Snopes and it is REAL. ALSO WENT TO TRUTH OR FICTION,IT'S on their site also.

PLEASE INFORM EVERYONE you know!

Emails with pictures of Osama Bin-Laden hanged are being sent and the moment that you open these emails your computer will crash and you will not be able to fix it!

1.) If you get an e-mail along the lines of 'Osama Bin Laden Captured' or 'Osama Hanged' , don't open the Attachment!!!!

This e-mail is being distributed through countries around the globe, but mainly in the US and Israel

Be considerate & send this warning to whomever you know.

PLEASE FORWAR D THIS WARNING AMONG FRIENDS, FAMILY AND CONTACTS:

2.) You should be alert during the next few days:

Do not open any message with an attached file called 'Invitation' regardless of who sent it.

It is a virus that opens an Olympic Torch 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, that is why you should 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 e-mail called 'invitation', even though sent 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=2 0ther vital information is kept.


SEND THIS E-MAIL TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW!!!!!!

 

[tabrooks]

Snopes says this is a hoax. snopes.com: Invitation / Olympic Torch / Merry Christmas Virus

 

[Semper Fidelis]

sarah,

Seriously, if you tried to create an e-mail to describe every possible attack vector for malware or an intrusion then you would be constantly creating threads to that effect. PDF and Word docs and zip files and a whole host of other file types can be used to exploit your system.

 

[OPC'n]

Sorry, was just trying to help. I won't make anymore of these kinds of threads. Free free to get rid of this one since it's not true anyway.

 

[Semper Fidelis]

I know you were trying to be helpful and so I was just trying to be helpful in return.

 

[WaywardNowHome]

It's typically a good idea not to open e-mails from strangers, especially if the subject of the e-mail is particularly strange, eg. Osama Bin Laden captured! I went through a lot of trouble in my younger years trying to rid my computer of malware due to spotty e-mails.