Olympic Torch Virus Hoax

[UnkHiram]

Subject: URGENT Read attached message

Please read the attached warning issued today.

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.

SEND THIS E-MAIL TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW, COPY THIS E-MAIL AND
SE! ND IT TO YOUR FRIENDS AND REMEMBER: IF YOU SEND IT TO
THEM, YOU WILL BENEFIT ALL OF US.

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Ok, That is the orginal Email that is going around. Being a slighty paranoid person by nature I went to McAfee and asked them about it. This is their Response:
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AVERT HOAX Notice!!
McAfee AVERT Labs would like to inform you of an email HOAX.
This email message is just a HOAX, currently we know of no other message that the user will receive about the HOAX as the initial email states. McAfee AVERT has not received any report of a user's hard drive (http://www.serverlogic3.com/lm/rtl3.asp?si=22&k=hard%20drive) being erased for opening the email.

The Olympic Torch Hoax first surfaced in February, 2006, just days before the opening ceremonies of the Olympic Winter Games in Turin.

It is a slightly revised version of a virus hoax circulating since 2000, popularly known as "A Virtual Card for You (http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_98893.htm) " or "Destroys Sector Zero (http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_98893.htm) " We are advising users who receive the email to delete it and DO NOT pass it on as this is how an email HOAX propagates.

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This has been a Public Service Announcement brought to you by Rednecks opposed to SPAM.

[DoctorDoom]

The hoax is loaded with all the classic symptoms of BS.

• Extensive ALL-CAPS
• Ominous warnings about catastrophic effects
• Claims that Microsoft said this or that -- MS is not in the AV business
• Recommendations to send it to everyone you know

Boot-sector viruses show up very occasionally, and they can do naughty things, but anyone who keeps his/her antivirus definitions current is highly unlikely to be affected.

And anyone who doesn't have a running, up-to-date AV program deserves to have a trashed machine.

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The Ultimate Virus

There is a computer virus that is being sent across the Internet. If you receive an e-mail message with the subject line "Free Money," DO NOT read the message. DELETE it immediately, UNPLUG your computer, then BURN IT to ASHES in a government-approved toxic waste disposal INCINERATOR.

Once a computer is infected, it will be TOO LATE. Your computer will begin to emit a vile ODOR. Then it will secrete a foul, milky DISCHARGE. Verily, it shall SCREECH with the tortured, monitor-shattering SCREAM of 1,000 hell-scorched souls, drawing unwanted attention to your cubicle from co-workers and supervisors alike. After violently ripping itself from the wall, your computer will punch through your office window as it STREAKS into the night, HOWLING like a BANSHEE. Once free, it will spend the rest of its days TORTURING household PETS and MOCKING the POPE.

Some filthy, disgusting miscreant ... some no-good, low-down, good-for-nothing DIRTY SNAKE, in twisted pursuit of his own sadistic dreams, is sending this virus across the Net via an e-mail entitled "Free Money." What is so terrifying about this virus is that you do not even to have to open the e-mail for it to activate. In fact, you do not even need to RECEIVE the e-mail. You do not even need to OWN a COMPUTER. "Free Money" can infect even minor HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES.

How it does this with straight ASCII code is, frankly, a matter of some debate ... but BELIEVE YOU US, if this weren't a SERIOUS situation, we wouldn't be discussing it in ALL CAPS.

So for the LOVE OF GOD, forward this e-mail to all those you claim to care about, all those you purport to love. Don't do it later! Do it Now! Now! Now! NOW! NOW! NOW!

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Virus Alert

READ THIS:

Goodtimes will re-write your hard drive. Not only that, but it will scramble any disks that are even close to your computer. It will recalibrate your refrigerator's coolness setting so all your ice cream goes melty. It will demagnetize the strips on all your credit cards, screw up the tracking on your VCR and use subspace field harmonics to scratch any CD's you try to play.

It will give your ex-girlfriend your new phone number. It will mix Kool-aid into your fishtank. It will drink all your beer and leave its socks out on the coffee table when there's company coming over. It will put a dead kitten in the back pocket of your good suit pants and hide your car keys when you are late for work. Goodtimes will make you fall in love with a penguin. It will give you nightmares about circus midgets.

It will pour sugar in your gas tank and shave off both your eyebrows while dating your girlfriend behind your back and billing the dinner and hotel room to your Discover card. It will seduce your grandmother. It does not matter if she is dead. Such is the power of Goodtimes that it reaches out beyond the grave to sully those things we hold most dear. It moves your car randomly around parking lots so you can't find it. It will kick your dog. It will leave libidinous messages on your boss's voice mail in your voice!

It is insidious and subtle. It is dangerous and terrifying to behold. It is also a rather interesting shade of mauve. Goodtimes will give you Dutch Elm disease. It will leave the toilet seat up. It will make a batch of Methamphetamine in your bathtub and then leave bacon cooking on the stove while it goes out to chase gradeschoolers with your new snowblower.

It cannot do anything to you. But I can. I am sending this message to everyone in the world. Tell your friends, tell your family.

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Thou hast just received the Amish Virus.

As we haveth no technology nor programming experience, this virus worketh on the honour system. Please delete all the files from thy hard drive and manually forward this virus to all on thy mailing list.

We thank thee for thy cooperation.

— The Amish Computer Engineering Dept.