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| | | From: Rene (Original Message) | Sent: 4/6/2005 3:40 PM |
Received this from 2 friends: R. mentioned this might be a Hoax. Normally I check this stuff out, but did not in this case. Turns out this "Virus Warning" is one of the few that is a hoax. A [Virtual] Card for You Virus: A (Virtual) Card for You Status: Hoax. Examples: | [Collected on the Internet, 2002] Comment: Worst Virus ever.....CNN announced.
PLEASE SEND THIS TO EVERYONE ON YOUR CONTACT LIST
A new virus has just been discovered that has been classified by Microsoft as the most destructive ever! This virus was discovered yesterday afternoon by McAfee and no vaccine has yet been developed.
This virus simply destroys Sector Zero from the hard disk, where vital information for its functioning are stored.
This virus acts in the following manner: It sends itself automatically to all contacts on your list with the title " A Card for You. "
As soon as the supposed virtual card is opened, the computer freezes so that the user has to reboot. When the keys or the reset button are pressed, the virus destroys Sector Zero, thus permanently destroying the hard disk.
Yesterday in just a few hours this virus caused panic in New York, according to news broadcast by CNN. This alert was received by an employee of Microsoft itself. So don't open any mails with subject: "A Virtual Card for You. " As soon as you get the mail, delete it. Even if you know the sender.
[Collected on the Internet, 2000]
Recently a new virus was discovered that was classified by MICROSOFT www.microsoft.com and by MCAFEE www.mcafee.com to be the most damaging of all time! This virus was discovered late yesterday by MCAFEE and still there is no development of a vaccine!
This virus simply writes zeros on the hard drive, where the vital information for the operation of the PC is kept. The virus activates in the following manner:
1. By email it is received with the title 'A VIRTUAL CARD FOR YOU', when opening the message, it sends itself to all in the address list soon...
2. It hangs the machine, forcing the user to reboot the system.
3. AT the moment in which the keys ctrl+alt+del or the RESET button is pressed, it writes zeros to the hard drive making it unusable forever.
By the previous information, please, take precaution with the use of electronic mail and, of course, if you receive an email which you do not know the origin of, simply delete it without opening.
Please, send this message to the most people possible!!!!
In a few hours yesterday, this virus caused panic in New York, according to CNN www.cnn.com. | Origins: The "Virtual Card for You" hoax (now often circulated simply as a "A Card for You") has been making the rounds in various languages since at least 2000, with occasional changes along the way. No such (incurable) virus ever existed, was identified by McAfee, was reported on by CNN, or "caused panic in New York." Additional information:  | Virtual Card for You
(Symantec) | | | A Virtual Card For You Hoax
(McAfee) | Last updated: 24 January 2005 |
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| | | From: Rene | Sent: 6/1/2005 6:11 PM |
Thanks Anna for this one May 4/05
Warning about a power point presentation VERY IMPORTANT WARNING Please Be Extremely Careful
especially if using internet mail such as Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL and so on.
This information arrived this morning from Microsoft and
Norton. Please send it to everybody you know who accesses
the Internet. You may receive an apparently harmless email
with a Power Point presentation "Life is beautiful. pps". If
you receive it DO NOT OPEN THE FILE UNDER ANY
CIRCUMSTANCES, and delete it immediately. if you open this
file, a message will appear on your screen saying: "It is
too late now, your life is no longer beautiful",
subsequently you will LOSE EVERYTHING IN YOUR PC and the
person who sent it to you gain access to your name, e-mail
and password. This is a new virus which started to
circulate on Saturday afternoon. WE NEED TO DO EVERYTHING
POSSIBLE TO STOP THIS VIRUS. AOL has already confirmed the
severity, and the antivirus Software's are not capable of
destroying it. The virus has been created by a hacker who
calls himself "life owner". PLEASE MAKE A COPY OF THIS
EMAIL TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS and PASS IT ON IMMEDIATELY
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| | | From: Rene | Sent: 6/6/2005 3:58 PM |
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| | This is the latest scam going the rounds
DO NOT reply to it !!
It looks Official, but it's NOT. It is a scam to get your details. This is a password harvester They will steal your password and possibly take over your accounts and or group! PASS THIS ON TO YOUR GROUPS!!
Be careful everyone especially other group managers!! | language=javascript>var bMB=true;</SCRIPT> language=javascript id=OVScript src="http://cmhtml.msn.overture.com/d/search/p/msn/js/communities/en-ca/?Partner=msn_grpdir_ca&maxCount=3&mkt=us&ctxtId=272&type=272"></SCRIPT> language=javascript></SCRIPT> ></SCRIPT> |
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| | | From: Rene | Sent: 7/12/2005 3:10 PM |
In a number of good active groups a few members have been seriously impacted by one virus or another. I recently had what had been "nasty" appear in my Microsoft-Outlook account. Fortunately, I hadn't opened the account for a couple of weeks & McAffee or web host had deleted it. If you use Outlook, make sure you you close the preview window. under View, highlight Current View, then make sure Messages is checked if any of the preview options are checked - uncheck them - then the message will not automatically open, and if there should be a "nasty" attached, you have time to delete it. What are the warning signs?
 | | | It's often extremely difficult even for experts to distinguish between a slick scam and authenticity. Your best protection, therefore, is caution--and following these five simple rules. That said, here are some telltale signs of a phishing scam: Requests for personal information in an e-mail message. Most legitimate businesses will not ask for personal information in e-mail. Alarmist messages Criminals attempt to create a sense of urgency so you'll respond without thinking. Misspellings and grammatical errors A slightly altered Web address. Only close scrutiny would reveal the deceptive spelling. For example, www.microsoft.com could appear as www.micosoft.com, www.mircosoft.com or www.mIcrosoft.com. If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. In particular, don't be fooled by an e-mail hoax promising easy money. Learn how to spot and avoid this kind of fraud. Trust the MSN butterfly Official e-mail to Hotmail members from Microsoft Online Services always arrives with a butterfly (as shown below). Although a scam artist can add a butterfly to the email message itself, only Microsoft Online Services can put a butterfly icon in this location. 
Tip Some companies, including ISPs, provide toolbars that can help you determine whether a site is a fake or not. One such toolbar is available from CoreStreet.
NEXT: Read 5 simple guidelines to protect yourself from phishing.  | | | | |
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| | | From: Rene | Sent: 8/30/2005 5:27 AM |
This posted on another group this evening so I pass it on here as it appears to be quite legitimate. RM Please take heed, apparently this new worm is CRAFTY ! Please let all your contacts know and other communities and groups so that perhaps we might all be safer and be able to get such atrocities out of existence. A new MSN Messenger worm often talks to people in their own tongue as it hunts for new victims, security experts have warned. The worm, dubbed Kelvir.HI, tailors the language of its attack message to the compromised system, said David Jaros, the director of product marketing at security vendor Akonix Systems, on Wednesday. It can send messages in English, Dutch, French, German, Greek (English alphabet), Italian, Portuguese, Swedish, Spanish and Turkish, he noted. "It appears to check which language the Windows client is configured to use," he said. "This is the first time that we have seen a worm that checks the system settings and then sends a specific message." When it hits an English system, the worm sends out the following message: "haha i found your picture!" The message is sent to everybody on a user's contacts list. The message includes a Web link that when clicked on will download malicious software that installs a backdoor and furthers the spread of the worm, Jaros said. The worm is a variant of the Kelvir pest that first surfaced in February. To date, there have been 103 variants of Kelvir, according to IM security company Akonix. The worm spreads via Microsoft's MSN Messenger instant-messaging service and affects computers running Windows 2000, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP, according to a Symantec advisory. The multilingual Kelvir is a sign that virus developers are getting more inventive and more global in terms of their target market, Jaros said. "They go after not only English speakers, but also other languages. I think we will definitely see more worms that cast a wider net." Threats to instant messaging and peer-to-peer systems are on the rise, Akonix said. The threats are not only more frequent, but attackers are increasingly morphing their software to circumvent security measures, the company said |
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