Virus Info, True or False, "Invitiation".

[BRL]

Just got this in an email, seems a bit panicky and along the same old lines as some of the older hoaxes. Can anyone shed any light on this please?

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 the vital 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

Thanks.

[timmcat]

We had a corporate warning about this one at work this week.

I took pleasure in bouncing it back with a link to snopes! (http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/invitation.asp)

[stickyb]

It's a hoax, been around in different guises since last century.
See:
http://urbanlegends.about.com/b/a/243068.htm
http://www.breakthechain.org/exclusives/olympicvirus.html
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/hoaxes/olympic.html
http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/invitation.asp
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/i/invitation.htm

and so on

[BOAC]

Same old advice, BRL, anything that starts PLEASE FORWARD THIS WARNING AMONG FRIENDS, FAMILY AND CONTACTS - almost certainly a hoax.

[BRL]

Thank you. :)

[Globaliser]

Same old advice, BRL, anything that starts PLEASE FORWARD THIS WARNING AMONG FRIENDS, FAMILY AND CONTACTS - almost certainly a hoax.And even if doesn't start with that, if it ends with:-
SEND THIS E-MAIL TO EVERYONE YOU KNOWthen it is DEFINITELY a hoax! :D

[Conan the Librarian]

Go with BOAC. Anything that requests your attention in this way, is almost definately a hoax or spam. Consign it to the bin, in the safe knowledge that anyone who really needs you will write back.

Conan

[Mac the Knife]

Why are you opening strange emails anyway?

:eek:

[Avtrician]

If everyone on email forwarded these warnings to everyone on their email lists, then the internet would choke on useless crap. Nearly as bad as denial attacks them selves.