Do you call yourself an IT professional, and:
1. Profess to be completely unaware of virus hoaxes;
2. Profess to have never seen a virus hoax before;
3. Profess to be incapable of checking with any antivirus product supplier
before propagating hoax virus messages on mailing lists.
I have enough trouble with "amateurs" putting these messages about but it is
worse to see IT people jumping on the bandwagon.
You can always tell these hoaxes because they claim to be identified by
Microsoft, IBM or some other prominent source and make other false claims (I
bet there are no such reports on CNN)
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/virtual.card.for.you.html
Virtual Card for You
Reported on: January 10, 2001
Last Updated on: February 13, 2001 at 12:44:05 PM PST
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The Virtual Card for You is a hoax that should be ignored. The following is
the text that may be received as an email message:
Virus Alert VIRUS WARNING To ALL INTERNET USERS:
A new virus has just been discovered that has been classified by Microsoft
(www.microsoft.com) and by McAfee (www.mcafee.com) as the most destructive
ever!
This virus was discovered yesterday afternoon by McAfee and no vaccine has
yet been developed. This virus simply destroys Sector Zero from the hard
disk, where vital information for its functioning are stored.
This virus acts in the following manner: It sends itself automatically to
all contacts on your list with the title "A Virtual Card for You".
As soon as the supposed virtual card is opened, the computer freezes so that
the user has to reboot. When the ctrl+alt+del keys or the reset button are
pressed, the virus destroys Sector Zero, thus permanently destroying the
hard disk.
Please distribute this message to the greatest number of people possible.
Yesterday in just a few hours this virus caused panic in New York, according
to news broadcast by CNN www.cnn.com). This alert was received by an
employee of Microsoft itself.
Category: Hoax
Please ignore any messages regarding this hoax and do not pass on messages.
Passing on messages about the hoax only serves to further propagate it.
http://vil.nai.com/vil/virusChar.asp?virus_k=98893
AVERT HOAX Notice!!
NAI Labs AVERT would like to inform you of a new 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. AVERT
has not received any report of a user's hard drive being erased for opening
the email.
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.
Below is the actual text from the message that may be received via email.
Recently a new virus was discovered that was classified by MICROSOFT
www.microsoft.com and by MCAFEE www.mcafee.com to be the most damaging of
all time! This virus was discovered late yesterday by MCAFEE and still there
is no development of a vaccine!
This virus simply writes zeros on the hard drive, where the vital
information for the operation of the PC is kept. The virus activates in the
following manner:
1. By email it is received with the title 'A VIRTUAL CARD FOR YOU', when
opening the message, it sends itself to all in the address list soon...
2. It hangs the machine, forcing the user to reboot the system.
3. AT the moment in which the keys ctrl+alt+del or the RESET button is
pressed, it writes zeros to the hard drive making it unusable forever.
By the previous information, please, take precaution with the use of
electronic mail and, of course, if you receive an email which you do not
know the origin of, simply delete it without opening.
Please, send this message to the most people possible!!!!
In a few hours yesterday, this virus caused panic in New York, according to
CNN www.cnn.com.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of John Christenhusz
> Sent: Wednesday, 14 March 2001 07:41
> To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
> Subject: [DUG]: Major Virus Warning
>
>
> Hi folks,
>
> A new virus has just been discovered that has been classified by
> M Microsoft ( www.microsoft.com <http://www.microsoft.com> ) and by McAfee
> ( www.mcafee.com <http://www.mcafee.com> ) as the most destructive ever!
> This virus was discovered yesterday afternoon by McAfee and no vaccine
> has yet been developed. This virus simply destroys Sector Zero from the
> hard disk, where vital information for its functioning are stored. This
> virus sends itself automatically to all contacts on your list with the
> title "A Virtual Card for You". When the supposed virtual card is
> opened, the computer freezes so that the user has to reboot. When the
> ctrl+alt+del keys or the reset button are pressed, the virus destroys
> Sector Zero, thus permanently destroying the hard disk. According to
> news broadcast by CNN ( www.cnn.com <http://www.cnn.com> ). This VIRUS
> received by an employee of Microsoft itself. So don't open any mails
> with subject "A Virtual Card for You". As soon as you get the mail,
> delete it. Please pass on this mail to all your friends. Also: Intel
> announced that a new and very destructive virus was discovered recently.
> If you receive an email called "An Internet Flower For You", do not open
> it. Delete it right away! It removes all dynamic link libraries(.dll
> files) from your computer. Your computer will not be able to boot up.
>
> SEND THIS TO EVERYONE ON YOUR CONTACT LIST!!
>
> Cheers
>
> John Christenhusz
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