Another hacker warning

I don't think your getting flamed hun', but stuff like this goes round like chinese whispers when there is very little need for it.

Some of the round robin emails I have had over the last few weeks are unbelievable..I think i had about 20 last week alone warning me of a royal mail postal scam.

If you do think there is a chance that its real, just check with Symantec or one of the other virus-checking firms and you'll probably find that it's actually all a load of bolloxs

sorry for the exgageration

[timwilky]

Sorry if you think me flaming you. My intention in saying check before posting this sort of stuff is that within my own company people would post this sort of rubbish to everybody in their mailbox who in turn post it to all their mailbox ad infinitum.

The only people who should ever be distributing alerts are genuine IT security types. By propagating these hoaxes, there is the chance that a genuine alert would be missed.

If you receive an alert. Check it out and act upon it if genuine. But never ever propagate them.

Originally Posted by Spiderman

No you didnt do worng but its always a good idea to check "facts" that anyone gives you before taking it as the truth

Especially if its any kinda of fact i've provided. And thats a fact!

i wouldn't know where to go to check "facts" !! just wouldn't want it to hapen to someone and then realise that i could have said something

My fave was about 3 years ago when a girl at our office received an email from a friend saying that there was a new virus out & she had to look in one of her folders for a file that had a "teddy bear" icon - if she saw it, it was bestto delete it....which she promptly did then forwarded the email to the whole company...so more people deleted the file.

More info here:

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/teddy-bear-virus-hoax.html

Awwww, lookit da cute ickle bear.

Please excuse my girlfriend, she's not that computer literate and doesn't know how/where/when to check these sorts of things, she just likes to do good deeds!

Originally Posted by Law

Just another chain letter then?

You must be really gullible to fall that one.

Please see the "women, love em" thread!

[Spiderman]

Originally Posted by mrs24_7

i wouldn't know where to go to check "facts" !! just wouldn't want it to hapen to someone and then realise that i could have said something

Ah, well aint you sweet

Google can be a good friend for these things. Just try typing something relevant like "life is beautiful + virus" and see what it brings up.

ok, i've learned my lesson now!

[Richie]

Will I get 7 years bad luck now for not forwarding them on then...?