Postcards and Snopes Hoaxes

I was on Facebook when one of my sisters made a comment about this:

I checked with Norton Anti-Virus, and they are gearing up for this virus!
I checked Snopes, and it is for real. Get this E-mail message sent around to your contacts ASAP.

SUBJECT : HUGE VIRUS COMING!

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

PLEASE FORWARD THIS WARNING AMONG FRIENDS, FAMILY AND CONTACTS!

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.

If you receive a mail called’ POSTCARD,’ even though sent to you 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.

Now I know that most people are trying to b helpful but if a person wants to get your to install a trojan it won’t be to delete your files. Nine times out of ten it is so the hackers can use your computer to do something you really don’t know about it. By either making your system a bot or installing scareware so they can make you buy into their fake Antivirus software. Although Snopes is half right but in the past I talked about doing your research before you warn your friends. This one as long as you have Antivirus Software and firewall. This won’t help just sending warning to your friends about something that won’t actually delete you software or programs. Now admittedly when the internet was young that would of been done readily easy to show to  people who made this were laughing but with the recession it wouldn’t make sense to make your system become dead, when they could use it for something that could help them make even more money!!

Please don’t forward hoaxes or spam like this.