[Land-speed] virus warning "POSTCARD FROM HALLMARK"

Wester Potter wester6935 at comcast.net
Tue Jun 17 10:49:04 MDT 2008


Apparently this is a nasty one.  Just delete without opening to be safe.

Wes

You can look it up on Snopes as well it is real. So be careful.

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.


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