Important!!(unless you know already)

[Richard]

PLEASE INFORM EVERYONE
>>Emails with pictures of Osama Bin-Laden hanged are being sent and
>>the moment that you open these emails your computer will crash and
>>you will not be able to fix it!
>>If you get an email along the lines of "Osama Bin Laden Captured" or
>>"Osama Hanged" don't open the attachment.
>>This e-mail is being distributed through countries around the globe,
>>but mainly in the US and Israel.
>>Be considerate & send this warning to whomever you know.
>>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.

 

[steve]

again?

http://urbanlegends.about.com/b/a/256445.htm

and no reported virus alerts from these guys either

http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/

 

[steve]

or these peeps,

http://www.symantec.com/home_homeoffice/security_response/threatexplorer/index.jsp

i think you might be safe as its just a hoax

 

[Dan Brown]

It's just bull**** to make everyone spam everyone else. If you actually read the text in the first post it's got no backbone to it at all. Just someone trying to convince you to forward this mail as many times as possible.

I never blame the people that forward this stuff to me as there is a huge percentage of people out there likely to believe this kind of stuff. After all it sounds very dangerous. I just wish I could find the ******* who wrote this email first and give him a kicking for wasting 5 minutes of everyones life.

Rant over

Dan

 

[Ian]

Everybody is so naive

 

[Leo]

No virus can break a PC beyond repair, shiiit who do they take us for.

And what numpties would open an attachment of Osama being hanged (despite his lack of actually being hanged) from someone they dont know, or any attachment from someone they dont know for that matter.

A note from me. If you open attachments from ppl you dont know, you deserve whats coming your way

 

[Buzz]

actually, zip drives? those an be killed.
i know it doesn't REALLY break the pc itself, and not many have them, but it can be done...

 

[Leo]

Internal Zip drives I imagine you mean, or external aswell?

In that case, surely it would be damaging the firmware. This is easy flashed back to standard.