Has anyone gotten a warning or seen anything about the Postcard virus?
A friend of mine forwarded a big panic about not opening anything in an
email entitled Postcard.
As a Mac user I guess getting emails like this are the greatest threat.
Here's what it says:
*checked with Norton Anti-Virus,
If you really looked this up at Snopes, you sure didn't read very
well. If you trusted _someone else_ to look it up at Snopes and read
it, shame on you.
http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/postcard.asp
Although the Postcard virus is real, it isn't a BIG VIRUS COMING
(it's already been around in
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_postcard_virus.htm
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Jordan jor17...@gmail.com wrote:
Has anyone gotten a warning or seen anything about the Postcard virus? A
friend of mine forwarded a big panic about not opening anything in an email
entitled Postcard.
It's an old hoax. Consider getting a new friend.
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Jordanjor17...@gmail.com wrote:
Has anyone gotten a warning or seen anything about the Postcard virus? A
friend of mine forwarded a big panic about not opening anything in an email
entitled Postcard.
As a Mac
Tony B wrote:
If you really looked this up at Snopes, you sure didn't read very
well. If you trusted _someone else_ to look it up at Snopes and read
it, shame on you.
http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/postcard.asp
I didn't say I looked it up at Snopes or anywhere else. I would have no
Kind of ironic..the mac guys are more worried then pc guys.
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Jordan jor17...@gmail.com wrote:
Tony B wrote:
If you really looked this up at Snopes, you sure didn't read very
well. If you trusted _someone else_ to look it up at Snopes and read
it, shame on
Always looking up these things on Snopes before believing or
forwarding (or in many cases, reading), is a great idea. Over the
years, I think I've only seen one warning that was actually
legitimate. Snopes has helped keep me safe, as well as keeping me from
embarrassing myself with my friends.
On Aug 27, 2009, at 7:04 PM, mike wrote:
Kind of ironic..the mac guys are more worried then pc guys.
WFBs can't detect that they are being mocked.
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t.piwowar wrote:
WFBs can't detect that they are being mocked.
Shh!
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I've received many of them for some time now, several months, I think. They
never specify a sender, so I am suspicious and don't open them. If I turn my
virus checker on (which slows my machine down), it always reports them as
viruses and quarantines them. I just erase them.
Fred Holmes
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