Big virus coming

[hey_moe]

You should be alert during the next few days. Do not open any message with an attachment entitled 'POSTCARD FROM HALLMARK,' regardless of who sent it to you. It is a virus which opens A POSTCARD IMAGE, 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. This is the reason why you need to 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.

[ben54b]

Hey Moe, If you don't mind my asking, where did you find out about this?

Ben

[ben54b]

Never mind, I just checked it out on snopes.

http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/postcard.asp

it's real but will not wipe out your HDD

Ben

[MudMarine]

This one again........?:isadizzy: The same bug was coming weeks ago.....? But come to find out it's a urban myth.

[johnh_049]

that one has turned into an annual holiday announcement.

[huub vink]

It seems to be just another HOAX (In other words a message to create panic, but not a real virus). There is actually a file there, but doesn't seem to do anything.

Huub

http://www.f-secure.com/hoaxes/taghoax.shtml

http://antivirus.about.com/od/emailhoaxes/p/postcard.htm