h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Email alert for the next following days:

Do not open any message with an attached filed called "Invitation regardless of who sent it.It is a virus that opens an Olympic Torch which "burns" the whole hard disc C of your computer. This virus will be received from someone who has your e-mail address in his/her contact list, that is why you should send this e-mail to all your contacts. It is better to receive this message 25 times than to receive the virus and open it.

If you receive a mail called "invitation", though sent by a
friend, do not open it and shut down your computer immediately. This is the worst virus announced by CNN, it has been classified by Microsoft as the most destructive virus ever. This virus was discovered by McAfee yesterday, and there is no repair yet for this kind of virus. This virus simply destroys the Zero Sector of the Hard Disc, where the vital information is kept.

Thanx Kat... I've made a note and will pass it on....

Sheryl I hope that they can find the source of the virus.

They usually do hun... I just don't see the point of folk circulating viruses... What have thay got to gain from it????

Sheryl I have heard that there is a group based in the Far East who do this as act of revenge against their goverment but their actions only effect ordinary people.

Yeah, I heard it's all arab related, but it's not doin owt to stop any big corporations as you say... It's just the hunble Joe Bloggs with all his family memories stored on his PC...

I reckon the anti-virus companies have a team of programmers who write viuses to keep themselves in business. Call me a cynic . . . . .

my compa not online so not my comp lol

I have heard about that anti-virus companies pay employees to put viruses in peoples computers so that they have noice but to buy their anti-spyware so that they can take it. Also they can put false reports that there are viruses and make you take out (rivale) software and only have theirs.

Fiendish!