"invitation" Virus Alert

[krizon]

I've just received an alarmed e-mail in huge bright red type alerting me to 'the most destructive virus ever' called "Invitation". When you open the e-mail, it shows an Olympic torch which then burns the p.c.'s CD or whatever viruses do. Anyway, before I infest my addressbook with replicant alerts, does anyone know if this is really a threat (no date was given as to when it was supposedly discovered) or another waste of space? Thanks.

 

[del boy]

Havent a clue Kri, i generally Just Trash all emails i get that i dont know who they are from, or if they have a topic title that im suspicious off. E.G. One i got the other day, "someone are you?"

Someone i am, yes indeed, well observed, but the element of doubt you have displayed with the inclusion of a question mark has led me to deduce that you are in fact a complete idiot, and i wont be opening your mail. (So if anyone is mailing me, title it something i might open..... norty )

 

[krizon]

:laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

Well, this is a well-meaning colleague I work with at Lingfield, but he does send me the odd rather hysterical (as in hysteria, rather than riotously funny - although he sends those, too) e-mail. They seem to originate mostly from the US, so I hope that by the time they get here, my Norton Bactericide will have fritzed the little buggers. I just hate getting these ALERT!! THIS IS NOT A HOAX! crap things from pals - I know they mean well, but what's one's anti-virus for?

 

[del boy]

Yeah i know what you mean alright. People should just say what they got to say and let you make up your own mind. I feel more wary about something marked, "not a hoax", than i do about ordinary mail.

 

[Harbinger]

It's a hoax:

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

 

[krizon]

Grrrrrrrrrrr!! He's going to feel such a twerp now! Thanks a mill, Gareth. I'll keep that link on tap so I can logon and see what's what next time I get this earnest, hysterical squeals. Gracias!

 

[Harbinger]

Snopes.com is great for these kind of emails - breakthechain.org too:

http://www.breakthechain.org/exclusives/olympicvirus.html

 

[Shadow Leader]

Ah, so today you've been trawling through emails, Jon?!

 

[krizon]

Er, only my own, miss. Wot people have sent me. Gareth, thanks for t'other site, too. I've sent off the snopes one to my colleague and got the reply "OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!" back! :laughing: