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VIRUS

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PLEASE CIRCULATE THIS NOTICE TO FAMILY AND FRIEANDS ON YOUR CONTACT LIST

In the coming days you should be aware .

Do not open any messages with an attachment called : INVERTATION FACEBOOK

regardless who sent it , it is a virus that opens an olympic torch and burns the whole hard disk c of your computer.

This virus will be receved from someone you will have in your address

book . This is why you should sent this message to all your contacts .

It is better to receve this email 25 times than to receve the virus and open it.

If you receve an email called ''Invertation FACEBOOK '' though sent by a friend ,

Do not open it delete it immediatley

CNN said it is a new virus discoverd recently and that it has been classified by microsoft as the most destructive virus ever .

It is a trogan Horse that asks you to install an adobe flash plugin.

Once you install it , it is all over .

There is no repair yet for this kind of virus ,

This virus simply destroys the zero sector of the hard disk ,

where the vital information of their function is saved .

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Olympic Torch (hoax)

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Not to be confused with Flame (malware).

 

Olympic Torch is a computer virus hoax sent out by e-mail. The hoax e-mails first appeared in February 2006. The "virus" referred to by the e-mail does not actually exist. The only effect is that the warning email itself is widely circulated as a chain letter. The hoax e-mail warns recipients of a recent outbreak of Olympic Torch viruses, contained in e-mails titled "Invitation", which erase the hard disk of the user's computer when opened. The hoax email further purports the virus to be acknowledged by such reputable sources as CNN, McAfee, Microsoft and now Facebook as one of the most dangerous viruses yet reported. In reality, the Olympic Torch virus is non-existent, and generally has not been reported by the organizations quoted. A similar version of this hoax is the Postcard Image virus hoax which refers to another non existent virus known as POSTCARD. The Postcard variation has been in circulation at least since 2008[1]

 

Proposed damage by the virus was, to cause ones hard drive to spin so fast, it caught on fire. That was why they called it the "torch"

 

Anti-virus specialists agree that recipients should delete virus hoaxes when they receive them, instead of forwarding them.[2][3