VIRUS ALERT!!!!!!!!!!

[MsPeaches]

URGENT MESSAGE!! PLEASE READ AND DISTRIBUTE WIDELY!! SUPERVIRUS LOOSE IN FACEBOOD!!FACEBOOK VIRUS WARNING New Computer Virus: Total Destruction, No Repair!!!!!!!! PLEASE CIRCULATE THIS NOTICE TO YOUR FRIENDS, FAMILY, CONTACTS! ... In the coming days, you should be aware..... Do not open any message with an attachment called: Invitation FACEBOOK, regardless of who sent it. It is a virus that opens an Olympic torch that burns the whole hard disc C of your computer. This virus will... be received from someone you had in your address book ... That's why you should send this message to all your contacts. It is better to receive this email 25 times than to receive the virus and open it ... If you receive a mail called: Invitation FACEBOOK, though sent by a friend, do not open it and delete it immediately. It is the worst virus announced by CNN.... A new virus has been discovered recently that has been classified by Microsoft as the most destructive virus ever. It is a Trojan Horse that asks you to install an adobe flash plug-in. Once you install it, it's all over. 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 of their function is saved. SNOPES SAYS THIS IS TRUE.

[RichD]

Re: VIRUS ALERT!!!!!!!!!!

i was looking for the snopes description and could not find it under virus...what was it under?

[blugiant]

Re: VIRUS ALERT!!!!!!!!!!

soo itt look like dem tryinn fe sell sum computers

[WitchyOoman]

Re: VIRUS ALERT!!!!!!!!!!

It's just a version of koobface. Any idiot stupid nuff to go through all of those steps to infect oneself kind of deserves to lose one's computer. I mean, honestly! You have to install the damn trojan yourself! DWL
Besides - <span style="font-weight: bold">there is a fix</span>.

Read about the virus here on Hoax Slayer, or here and here on Snopes. Mr Witchy and I like Hoax Slayer over Snopes, actually...

And if you were stupid enough to actually install your own trojan... go here (Microsoft.com) to fix your computer; it's savable if you can follow simple instructions.

[WitchyOoman]

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Thank God I don't use MS Outlook!
Nothing can grab my contacts from my old reliable email program, Pegasus.

And thank God I'm smart enough to know better than to install a program (or the update of a program) that isn't really one I want!
I do my updates on weekends, when I do them in an orderly fashion, one at a time, paying close attention to what I'm doing.