****VERY IMPORTANT....VIRUS ALERT....*****

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I never bother with things like this that are forwarded. I pay only for operating systems and anti-malware. That keeps the computer secure…mostly.

Who knows about these sorts of warnings but I thought I would forward it as it is from a reliable source.

Please read: Big Virus coming
http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/postcard.asp
Hi All, I checked with Norton Anti-Virus, and they are gearing up for this virus!

I checked Snopes (URL above:), 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,’ 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.

Snopes lists all the names it could come in.

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So the ‘urban legends reference pages’ are your reliable sources? :smiley: :hehe:

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Snopes is usually a very good source for checking out “warnings” and such like as they do thorough investigations as to whether the story is true. In this case Snopes is confirming that there are some dangerous Trojans hiding behind emails pretending to be a cards from someone you know. But this isn’t new. As the Snopes page shows, they first reported on this last June.

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i guess this is what you are talking about TDM?

http://www.sophos.com/security/hoaxes/sectorzero.html

:smiley: