Panda Internet Security 2007 warning:
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Artist:
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Album:Science
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Track:Summer Romamnce
Panda Internet Security 2007 has detected this message as a hoax. The content of this type of message tries to deceive users, therefore, you should ignore it and delete it. Panda Internet Security 2007 warning:Panda Internet Security 2007 has detected this message as a hoax. The content of this type of message tries to deceive users, therefore, you should ignore it and delete it. BETTER SAFE THAN SORRY. READ AND HEED. I just verified this with Snopes and it is REAL. 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 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. SEND THIS E-MAIL TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW
Comments (7)
"*What Snopes actually has to say about the 'Hanged Osama virus'*":http://snopes.com/computer/virus/osama.asp virus:
The whole purpose of thses hoax messages is to cause people to unnecessarily forward them to everyone they know, in order to inconvenience people and to tie up e-mail systems (imagine the average corporate e-mail system if everyone with e-mail privileges starts sending spams this big to everyone in their address books?).
I made a previous post about protecting your computer - so long as you keep up - to - date on anti-virus and anti-malware and run a good firewall (i've changed my opinion on that; "*Komodo's free firewal*:"http://personalfirewall.comodo.com/l tests better in some tests than even any you have to pay for, and is less hassle than ZoneAlarm...)
Years ago, i did a "*post about this sort of thing on my website*":http://electronictiger.com/commentary/rants/rantpage15.htm - a few days later, i got an e-mail from a college professor asking permission to use it in a course he was teaching. (The links in that may or may not still be good - however, the link to F-Secure's "*Virus Hoax Database*":http://www.f-secure.com/virus-info/hoax/, the industry standard, is still valid and worth checking whenever you get one of these "Virus Warning" e-mails...)