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I have just recieved this Virus Warning!!!
tomarse:
--- Quote from: "TUFFTEE" ---I was expecting responses from some of the Know it alls out there!! :roll:
But throwing caution to the wind is not my Way! 8)
And if there is the Slightest Chance of a really bad Virus out There! Then to to Forearmed and ready is the best policy! :wink:
So to you Know it alls TOUGH! :x
I was only advising the membership of a possibility :cry:
--- End quote ---
As with pretty much every 'virus warning' you recieve in your email. This is a hoax virus.
The viral part of a hoax virus is the warning message getting passed on...
so by posting it here you just propagated it!, in effect infecting those of us who read it!. When you get rubbish like this just delete it!
TUFFTEE:
--- Quote from: "tomarse" ---
so by posting it here you just propagated it!, in effect infecting those of us who read it!. When you get rubbish like this just delete it!
--- End quote ---
Thats your choice! You don't have to read it!
Apart from to get your daily Fix of MC And interfere in other peoples lives!!!
And when you end up with a Crippling Virus! Tough Because you don't heed warnings!
Now don't waste my precious time!
muddyweb:
OK, before this descends any further...
It is well worth checking with someone like Sophos to see if any given virus warning is a known hoax before passing anything on.
The link posted by Pete above is usually reasonably up to date with things.
It is not unknown for the virus warning message to actually contain the trojan / virus itself, which gets propagated through people forwarding it to their friends with the best intentions.
Quite often, the message itself is just junk mail... a bit like the old chain letters... I've still never quite managed to work out the point of these.
As Tuftee says, caution is by far the best response and it is reckless to just glibly ignore the threats from trojans and virii.. unfortunately, there is often a threat from the messages themselves, which is why a quick check for known hoaxes is worthwhile.
TUFFTEE:
Thankyou Tim! As always you have a better way of getting the point over!
Than i have?
And all i done was Copied and pasted the Text of the Message!
Tonka One:
Hi Tufftee,
Thanks for the information, will be watching my mail more carefully in future.
Tonka One
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