Hi, These ones seem to have worked in the way they were intended by clogging up this forum
----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 2:33 PM Subject: Re: [canals-list] Was: READ IMMEDIATELY PLS-IMPORTANT now SPAM? In a message dated 03/08/2007 11:36:21 GMT Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I received two warnings, from friends. One warned of an email with the heading " Life is Beautiful" the other " Invitation". Both capable of doing serious damage to files and hard drive. These warnings were issued by Microsoft, Norton and McAfee. They all say they can't deal with these viruses at the moment. 'Life is Beautiful' is a well-known hoax dating back to May 2002. 'Invitation' or 'Olympic Torch Virus' as it also known dates back to June 2006. Even Microsoft, Norton and McAfee would have a solution by now. The warnings were NOT issued by Microsoft, Norton or McAfee but by idiots who think it is fun to overload email systems by getting innocent, but helpful, computer users to pass the emails on. Before forwarding emails like this it is best to check with a site such as Hoaxbuster at _http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org_ (http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org) . If you want to put it on an email list, send it direct to the list owner who may or may not want it clogging up his list. Even without checking Hoaxbuster, there are always clues: - Microsoft, Norton, McAfee (or some other respected organisation) has no solution - "This is the worst virus ever produced" - "It causes untold damage to your system" - "Tell all your friends" Hmmm, parallels with the panic over global warming, methinks! ;-) DaveD I raise money for charity just by searching the web! www.everyclick.com is an internet search engine with a big difference - it donates half its revenues to charity, please support them too! [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.11.2/933 - Release Date: 8/2/2007 2:22 PM [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
