McAfee discovered a new virus...

[toyackz605]

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Deep freeze ray katapat ana sis. Kung naka freeze state imong pc, hard reset rana. Tak tak daun ang kagaw.

prevention is better than cure

wla kwenta ang virus shield ( anti-virus ) like this virus kay McAfee lng mkabantay..wat f lain ? patay dayun ang imo pc

[jeremiahjay]

'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 drive of your computer. If you get one, Shut down your computer immediately. This is the worst virus announced by CNN. It has been classified by Microsoft as the most destructive virus ever. dis virus was discovered by McAfee yesterday, and der s no repair yet for this kind of virus. This virus simply destroys the Zero Sector of the Hard Disc, where the vital information is kept...'

this is what i am referring to as a hoax. who would believe this kind of trash? come on, who spells hard disk with a 'c'?

@treize:

read the snopes.com link completely before concluding anything, ok? the message quoted by the TS is the hoax.

Bro di ba ni ang TS is just echoing what she had heared which is in a way a real threat? And maybe the TS is just not that well versed with computer things. Honetly i don't care about how it is spelled as long as i get the knowledge that there is a threat. That's it for me.

@ treize: Is there a real threat or not?

[treize]

'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 drive of your computer. If you get one, Shut down your computer immediately. This is the worst virus announced by CNN. It has been classified by Microsoft as the most destructive virus ever. dis virus was discovered by McAfee yesterday, and der s no repair yet for this kind of virus. This virus simply destroys the Zero Sector of the Hard Disc, where the vital information is kept...'

this is what i am referring to as a hoax. who would believe this kind of trash? come on, who spells hard disk with a 'c'?

@treize:

read the snopes.com link completely before concluding anything, ok? the message quoted by the TS is the hoax.

yes I do get your point and I know what you are referring to and I do hope also you understand what I am trying to imply with my previous post.. thanks...

[treize]

Bro di ba ni ang TS is just echoing what she had heared which is in a way a real threat? And maybe the TS is just not that well versed with computer things. Honetly i don't care about how it is spelled as long as i get the knowledge that there is a threat. That's it for me.

@ treize: Is there a real threat or not?

your computers are receiving threats everyday, so why bother with this piece of crap...

and by the way the TS posted an issue that is more than a year old so you dont really have to worry about it...

[cyril]

Linux Live CD na lang gamita para surf internet

Free pa than naa kay Deep Freeze and/or Anti-virus...

plus wala pa'y extra background programs ga-dagan...

[softtouch]

Something is not right here...
The mentioned OSX/iPHSponey.A is for iPhone, and just a proof of concept thing...

[jeremiahjay]

your computers are receiving threats everyday, so why bother with this piece of crap...

and by the way the TS posted an issue that is more than a year old so you dont really have to worry about it...

Okey, di man ni ako line of expertise mao mangutana mi ninyo. peace

[erwin_rommel]

matod pa sa snopes.com "this is a mixture of a real virus and a hoax"

[insect111]

from the snopes.com article, snopes.com: 'Hallmark Postcard from a Family Member' virus:


"NOTE: Readers should take particular care not to confuse the real postcard/greeting card virus with a number of virus-related hoaxes that have been circulating for several years. A variety of messages forwarded by well-intended people to warn others about the Postcard virus contribute to this confusion by including within them links to our article about the "Virtual Card for You" hoax (or by mistakenly incorporating elements from that hoax into their warnings). Other versions of the postcard virus warning erroneously combine it with elements of the Invitation virus hoax:

[excerpts of the hoax as posted in the first post of this thread here]

Although the Postcard virus is real, it isn't a "BIG VIRUS COMING" (it's already been around in multiple forms for a long time now), it will not "burn the whole hard disc" of your computer, CNN didn't classify it as the "worst virus" ever, and it doesn't arrive in messages bearing a subject line of 'Invitation.'"


the link given by the TS in the first post is not in anyway related to the hoax. the hoax also has nothing to do with the OSX/iPHSponey in post #3. the way the TS presented her 'facts' is confusing and misleading.

@jeremiahjay:

you may not care how hard disk is spelled but the most reliable indicator of a hoax spreading through email is the presence of misspelled words and other grammatical errors including missing commas and periods. so next time you receive any email warning you of a dangerous virus, pay attention to how the message was composed. don't just hit the forward button to warn all your contacts about this destructive virus which do not exist in the first place. you are just spreading misinformation.

[hizuka007]

> Wla sa given link yung ganahan nimo ma-basa? Hmm...will try to gather more details...Perhaps other Istoryans can share...

wala jud,,, i mean, wala jud ddto ang imong giquote nga statements.


but anyway, unsa diay ning Hallmark? ngano man pud ni nato edownload ang ilang attatchment ? ....