[Rhodes22-list] Fw: No Joke - Big Virus Coming - Pass It On]

[Steven Alm]

What exactly is this thing called a virus?  Are they bad?

Slim

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 2:11 PM, john Belanger <jhnblngr at yahoo.com> wrote:

> thanks,
>
> s/v 1969 venture 21
>
>
> --- On Fri, 5/30/08, Rik Sandberg <sanderico1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > From: Rik Sandberg <sanderico1 at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Fw: No Joke - Big Virus Coming - Pass It On]
> > To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> > Date: Friday, May 30, 2008, 2:08 PM
> > John,
> >
> > Apparently it isn't real, BUT everybody should read the
> > information at
> > this link because there are many viri out there that are
> > very similar.
> >
> > http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_postcard_virus.htm
> >
> > Rik
> >
> > "Is this gonna' put me in a bad mood? 'Cause
> > I'm not usually this pleasant".... Rik Sandberg
> >
> >
> >
> > john Belanger wrote:
> > > hello,
> > > i hope this is real or i hope it isn't. let me err
> > on the side of caution.
> > > john b
> > > s/v 1969 venture 21
> > >
> > >
> > >  On Fri, 5/30/08,
> > >
> > >> Subject: No Joke - Big Virus Coming - Pass It On]
> > >>
> > > Date: Friday, May 30, 2008, 11:17 AM
> > >
> > >> Get this E-mail message sent around to your
> > >> contacts ASAP. > 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 no t ope n 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. > > > > > >
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> > >>
> > >>
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