Hate to say this for ethical reasons, but I kinda like this hoax...

Yes, folks waste disk space and a bit of band width spreading the hoax.

OTOH, folks are playing Farmville, etc between calls.  Anything that keeps 
them off yet another FB app can't be that bad...

"James Kerr" <[email protected]> wrote on 11/19/2010 03:44:28 PM:

> YES I HAVE SEEN IT!!!!!!!!!!1!! WHAT WILL WE DO??/
> 
> This message was just put up by a friend on Facebook. Is there any 
validity 
> or just another hoax? "WARNING!!!!!!.....Don't
> Usethe Christmas Tree App. please be advised it will crash your
> computer.Geek Squad says it's one of the WORST Trojan Viruses there is
> and it isspreading quickly. Re-post and let your friends know!! T...hx!
> Its Called...Best Friends Xmas"
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "John Aldrich" <[email protected]>
> To: "NT System Admin Issues" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Friday, November 19, 2010 1:47 PM
> Subject: Facebook "Christmas Tree" app
> 
> 
> > Any of y'all seen the warning that the "Christmas Tree" app on 
Facebook is
> > infected with a virus? Snopes lists it as "under investigation" so I 
> > thought
> > I'd check and see if there is any knowledge one way or the other here. 
As 
> > a
> > precaution, I've sent out a warning to my users not to use that app,
> > *especially* not on company computers. I'm resigned to the fact that 
since
> > things are somewhat slow around here, a lot of people are probably 
going 
> > to
> > be checking there FB accounts...
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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