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Old 18-08-2009, 12:41   #1
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There seems to be widespread panic about a new major virus which can supposedly wipe your c drive - "Postcard" or "Postcard from a friend".

Has anyone heard of this and is it real or a hoax?
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Old 18-08-2009, 12:46   #2
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There seems to be widespread panic about a new major virus which can supposedly wipe your c drive - "Postcard" or "Postcard from a friend".

Has anyone heard of this and is it real or a hoax?

Likely to be a hoax, just like the £10k I got offered this morning
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Old 18-08-2009, 13:04   #3
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Re: Virus - Postcard
Seems to be a hoax:

http://urbanlegends.about.com/librar...card_virus.htm

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/postcard-virus-hoax.shtml

http://www.sophos.com/security/hoaxes/sectorzero.html

http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/postcard.asp
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Old 18-08-2009, 13:31   #4
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I have had a load of eCard's from a firend spam emails with most of them being a link, but there have been some EXE attachments which have tripped Norton giving PACKED GENERIC 232/243 results.. which is probably a simple spyware/adware package and nothing more
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Whenever I get sent one of these so-called VIRUS warnings I Google it, 90+% of the time they are hoaxes just as StuartC says above!
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