Virus Alert

[nelsonone]

This one came throuigh via my external IT consultants just now......so be warned

You should be alert during the next days:

Do not open any message with an attached file 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

[shwaygwailo]

Hi Nels, we can stand the troops down and go to that party afterall.
Breakout the whiskey for all is well.
It's a hoax

Sophos hoax description: Olympic torch

[nelsonone]

Originally Posted by shwaygwailo

Hi Nels, we can stand the troops down and go to that party afterall.
Breakout the whiskey for all is well.
It's a hoax

Sophos hoax description: Olympic torch

thanks......good news Shway.....

My lappy has been doin' all sorts of odd things today.....had to reboot 3 times this afternoon alone........so I must say I was a bit concerned....as I get invitations to bloody everything from the openning of a new building to the openning of a letter......

bit like a lad just returned from LOS for the first time ....hang on I'm just headed to the bathroom!!!!.........

[ub2yoo]

Just for the record, all so called "warnings" you receive in this style are hoaxes. They are aimed to seed panic and confusion, in addition most of those emails are requesting the receiver to forward this warning to everyone they know, which makes them kind of a "Human Virus" spreading around, overloading email services and in some rare cases end up in denial of service attacks of resources/mail servers.

Just delete them.