The Poultry Keeper

bronskibeat · Joined: 09 Sep 2007 Posts: 1115 Location: Clawddnewydd

I had this sent to me this morning, does anyone know anything about it or is it just rubbish? And no, it didnt have "invitation" in the title!!

READ IMMEDIATELY PLS

Get this sent around to your contacts ASAP...we don't need this spreading around.

PLEASE FORWARD THIS WARNING AMONG FRIENDS, FAMILY AND CONTACTS:
You should be alert during the next 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 a mail called ' invitation ' , though sent by a friend, do not open it and 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, 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

SEND THIS E-MAIL TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW ,

COPY THIS E-MAIL AND SEND! IT TO YOUR FRIENDS

AND REMEMBER: IF YOU SEND IT TO THEM, YOU WILL BENEFIT ALL OF US

Kitsune · Joined: 13 Mar 2008 Posts: 452 Location: Manchester

McAfee Avert Labs HOAX Notice!!

McAfee Avert Labs would like to inform you of a new email HOAX.

This email message is just a HOAX, currently we know of no other message that the user will receive about the HOAX as the initial email states. McAfee Avert Labs has not received any report of a user's hard drive being erased by opening the email.

We are advising users who receive the email to delete it and DO NOT forward it on as this is how an email HOAX propagates.

Below is the actual text from the message that may be received via email.

You should be alert during the next 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 a mail called "invitation", though sent by a friend, do not open it and 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.

bronskibeat · Joined: 09 Sep 2007 Posts: 1115 Location: Clawddnewydd

Cheers, I've just found the site SNOPES and looked it up.....hoax Embarassed

Kitsune · Joined: 13 Mar 2008 Posts: 452 Location: Manchester

Snopes is a really good site for checking on stuff like that