[clug] linux Digest, Vol 118, Issue 19

[Scott Ferguson]

On 18/10/12 13:48, David Pisk wrote:
> I didn't read the whole email (Virus Coming) before I forwarded it. It would
> have to be a fake. 

It is.

http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_postcard_virus.htm

Trolls never die - they just smell like they have.

> My apologies for forwarding it and wasting your time.

Nice of you.

For future reference:-
* those style of alerts are often a malware distribution method
* best to check before forwarding them - especially the sources quoted
within the scare alert itself
* don't post other people's email addresses on the list without asking
them if they want spam unlimited ;-) (if you ask the list maintainers
nicely they may delete it - but it will already have been copied by
other sites).
* pretty much anything on the intertubes in ALLCAPS belongs in the big
round file :-)


Your hard drive zero sector is still safe ;-)


Kind regards

> 
> David Pisk.

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