New virus email - scam?

[NikPreviousAcct]

Either I suck at searching or it's not on Snopes yet. Anybody else get this?

WORST VIRUS EVER ---CNN ANNOUNCED

PLEASE SEND THIS TO EVERYONE ON YOUR CONTACT LIST !!

A new virus has just been discovered that has been classified by Microsoft
as the most destructive ever! This virus was discovered yesterday afternoon
by McAfee and no vaccine has yet been developed. This virus simply
destroys Sector Zero from the hard disk, where vital information for its
functioning are stored.

This virus acts in the following manner:

It sends itself automatically to all contacts on your list with the title
"A Card for You".

As soon as the supposed virtual card is opened

the computer freezes so that the user has to reboot. When the ctrl+alt+del
keys or the reset button are pressed, the virus destroys Sector Zero, thus
permanently destroying the hard disk. Yesterday in just a few hours this
virus caused panic in New York, according to news broadcast by CNN. This
alert was received by an employee of Microsoft itself.

So don't open any mails with subject: "A Virtual Card for You." As soon as
you get the mail, delete it!! Even if you know the sender!!!

Please pass this mail to all of your friends.

Forward this to everyone in your address book. I'm sure most people, like
myself, would rather receive this notice 25 times than not at all.

 

[Mill]

Scam

 

[Geekbabe]

yeah it's the LLohan virus🙂

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: Geekbabe
yeah it's the LLohan virus🙂

Oo baby :shocked: May I be stricken from it and never recover!

 

[kranky]

That's a really old one. It's probably been going around for 5 years.

 

[ISAslot]

Caused panic in new york eh? So did all the computer users run screaming from their computers into the streets?