Anyone else get this email today (another virus hoax)

Led Zeppelin

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I think this is the 10th time I've seen this. Isn't it funny that if you do a search on cnn.com. there's absolutely no mention of it whatsoever? *sigh* AOL/MSN idiots will believe just about anything.
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Fw: WORST VIRUS EVER ---CNN ANNOUNCED [better read it before deleted it]

 
 

>                       10/30/2002 07:29         cc:
> >                       PM                       Subject:  Fwd: Fw: WORST
> VIRUS EVER ---CNN ANNOUNCED [better read it before deleted it]
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> >  Subject: Fw: WORST VIRUS EVER ---CNN ANNOUNCED [better read it before
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> > Subject: WORST VIRUS EVER ---CNN ANNOUNCED [better read it before
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> > PLEASE SEND THIS TO EVERYONE ON YOUR CONTACT LIST !!
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> > A new virus has just been discovered that has been classified by
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> > Microsoft as the most destructive ever! This virus was discovered
> yesterday
> > afternoon by McAfee and no
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> > vaccine has yet ! been developed. This virus simply  destroys Sector
Zero
> > from the hard disk, where vital
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> > information for its functioning are stored.
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> > This virus acts in the following manner: It sends itself automatically
to
> > all contacts on your list with
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> >  the title "A Card for You".
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> > As soon as the supposed virtual card is opened, the computer freezes so
> > that the user has to reboot. When
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> > the ctrl+alt+del keys or the reset button are pressed, the virus
destroys
> > Sector Zero, thus permanently
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> > destroying the hard disk. Yesterday in just a few hours this virus
caused
> > panic in New York, according
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> > to news broadcast by CNN. This alert was received by an employee of
> > Microsoft itself.
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> > So don't open any mails with subject: "A Virtual Card for You."
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> > As soon as you get the mail, delete it!! Even if you know the sender!!!
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> > Please pass this mail to all of your friends.
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> > Forward this to everyone in your address book. I'm
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> > sure most people, like myself, would rather receive
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> > this 25 times than not at all.
 

NogginBoink

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Originally posted by: LedZeppelin
> > Please pass this mail to all of your friends.
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> > Forward this to everyone in your address book. I'm
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> > sure most people, like myself, would rather receive
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> > this 25 times than not at all.

I guess I'm not "most people" then.