I always google virus alerts before forwarding them. The most recent thing I found regarding this particular alert is from 2005. Before that, 2002.
--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Martin Baxter <truthseeker...@...> wrote: > > > Just had this from a friend. SERIOUS STUFF... > > Emails > with pictures of Osama Bin-Laden hanged are being sent, and the > moment that you open these emails your computer will crash and you > will not be able to fix it. > > 1.) > If you get an e-mail along the lines of 'Osama Bin Laden Captured' or > 'Osama Hanged', don't open the Attachment!!!! > > This e-mail is being distributed through countries around the > globe, but mainly in the US and Israel. > > 2.) You should be alert during the next few days: > > Do not open any message with an attached file 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. If > you receive e-mail titled 'invitation', even though sent by a friend, > do not open it. 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 the vital information is > kept. > > > "If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody > hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Hotmail: Powerful Free email with security by Microsoft. > http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/171222986/direct/01/ >
