New Virus Warning?

joho

Got this email this morning: I know it doesn't hurt to send this kind of email on anyway, but is it real or a hoax?

PLEASE FORWARD THIS WARNING AMONG FRIENDS, FAMILY AND CONTACTS:
You should be alert during the next days:
Do not open any message with an attached filed called "Invitation"
regardless of who sent it
It is a virus that opens an Olympic Torch 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, that is why you should 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. !
If you receive a mail called "invitation," though sent by a friend, do not open it and 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.
This virus was discovered by McAfee yesterday, and there is no repair yet for this kind of virus.
This virus simply destroys the Zero Sector of the Hard Disc, where thevital information is kept.
SEND THIS E-MAIL TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW, COPY THIS E-MAIL AND SEND IT TO YOUR FRIENDS AND REMEMBER: IF YOU SEND IT TO THEM, YOU WILL BENEFIT ALL OF US

T4i

Hoax.

http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/hoaxes/olympic.html

http://www.scmagazine.com/uk/news/article/541449/olympic+torch+virus+exposed+hoax/

quoia

HOAX !!!




Just google virus invitation olympic

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=virus+invitation+olympic&meta=

there are dozens that report this hoax.

Top of the list is .....

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

which says.......

The classics never go away, it seems, so just in time for the 2006 Winter Olympics someone has dusted off an old virus warning hoax (most commonly seen in its incarnation as the "[Virtual] Card for You" hoax) and reintroduced it as an "Olympic Torch" virus warning (also known as the "Invitation virus"). The same basic hoax has been circulating in various languages since at least 2000, with occasional changes along the way. No such (incurable) virus exists, has been identified by McAfee, or was reported on by CNN.

joho

Thanks peeps! Will forward the hoax info instead of the original email!:D