"postcard" deadly email virus

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I got this in my email and I thought I would pass it on:



Http://WWW.Snopes.Com/computer/virus/postcard.asp
<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.

COPY THIS E-MAIL, AND SEND IT TO YOUR FRIENDS. REMEMBER:
IF YOU SEND IT TO THEM, YOU WILL BENEFIT ALL OF US.

Snopes lists all the names it could come in .

[Atarget1]

Thanks bro!!!

[xtremeRCpilot]

Thanks !!! I will let them all know!!

[thewrap]

Yeah I spent a weekend getting a trojan off mine. Good post. Amazingly I just got an email from Norton about it.

[selleri]

Please read the NOTE: portion of the Snopes page.

	Quote:
	NOTE: Readers should take particular care not to confuse the real postcard/greeting card virus with a number of virus-related hoaxes that have been circulating for several years. A variety of messages forwarded by well-intended people to warn others about the Postcard virus contribute to this confusion by including within them links to our article about the "Virtual Card for You" hoax (or by mistakenly incorporating elements from that hoax into their warnings). ... 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.'