Ducati Sporting Club UK > General > Idle Chat > Another virus thing

[Dave G]

I was sent a warning about this today,anyone else heard of it?


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 filed 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.

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




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[electricsheep]

it is a hoax

http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/invitation.asp

[madmav]

http://urbanlegends.about.com/b/a/243068.htm?r=94

[Dave G]

Thanks guys,I normally ignore all that stuff but I was actually contacted afterwards to make sure I'd got the message.

[crm250]

I had a user kindly distribute that to around 650 internal users on my global list and try to sent it out to another 1200+ on the global too.
MIMESweeper stopped it going to the external recipients and would have canned it coming in too, but this guy brought it in on a USB keyring as it kept getting autobinned my mimesweeper when he tried to send it in from home.
Needless to say he was promtly escorted to HR for a breif chat about missuse of email. Result = add a rule in mimesweeper to quarantine all his outgoing mail (this guys a serial offender)

[madmav]

Originally posted by crm250
I had a user kindly distribute that to around 650 internal users on my global list and try to sent it out to another 1200+ on the global too.
MIMESweeper stopped it going to the external recipients and would have canned it coming in too, but this guy brought it in on a USB keyring as it kept getting autobinned my mimesweeper when he tried to send it in from home.
Needless to say he was promtly escorted to HR for a breif chat about missuse of email. Result = add a rule in mimesweeper to quarantine all his outgoing mail (this guys a serial offender)

Boy am i glad i fix BIKES and run trips

[Davieravie]

Originally posted by madmav

Boy am i glad i fix BIKES and run trips

Me too Mav......what language is that in???