HALMARK OR POSTCARD. With the holidays coming alot of e-cards are sent! When someone is infected they don't know it and sends out the virus though there e-mail address book. Virus Protections can not detect or warn you it's there!!!! If you don't know who the person in that is e-mailing don't open. Dawn

Thank you for helping us protect or files;
*4u!

Thank you Dawn for the warning

Just be aware! Before I retired I had a huge virus in my classroom. 45 computers Were infected! What a nightmare. I had to shut down the Lab so that the other computers though out the school didn't get infected. While other people were saying it was just a joke gag hoax I was dealing with it!!!!!!!!!
What a mess!!!!

Thank you for the warning! you cannot be too carefull!

Thanks for the warnings. I think my hot mail was hijacked too. What do they do when they get your address and send everyone email with no subject. I got one from my niece and it had advertisements from a Canadian pharmacy. I then one with my sisters name, I didn't open that one. Now I don't know if they got into my mailbox or what.It is a shame that people have nothing better to do than tear up the property of others. Computers and software are not cheap and they should be ashamed. Just venting,thanks
Jo Ann

thanks for the warning.

Thanks.

Thanks for the warning.

Thankyou to be on the safe side i dont open ANY emails that i dont know who they are, I now tell all on my email listing that if it doesnt have a special word to me in the subject box DONT open, My hotmail has been h/jacked :(((

This is a hoax, go to
http://www.hoax-slayer.com/postca...
Commentary:
According to this emailed warning, a virus is currently being distributed that will destroy the hard drive on the infected computer and has been classified by Microsoft as the most destructive virus ever. The message claims that opening an email attachment named "POSTCARD" or "POSTCARD FROM HALLMARK", will open a postcard image that will "burn" the entire hard disk on the infected computer and destroy the disk's "zero sector".

However, the claims in the warning message are untrue. As explained later in the article, the warning is just a newer variant of older virus hoaxes that have circulated for several years. Unfortunately, this variant has gained completely undeserved credibility due to the following factors:

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by sewist 15 Nov 2010

wish others would check the hoax websites before passing these on.

Thanks so much for the info. Arlene

Seems as if I head about this one a while back I guess it is still out there. And don't open any that say about your IRS refund or your UPS delivery.

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by clawton 15 Nov 2010

I have gotten many of the UPS ones in the past and they are marked for my spam folder. I knew it has to spam since I didn't order anything though them using my email

by lildoll 15 Nov 2010

i just now got an email from ups, i get them about once a week, also that pharmacy trying to sell me penius enlargers, how creapy !!! i never open them. sick people.

by killiecrankie 15 Nov 2010

I guess snail mail is best for tax refunds or refunds that go straight into your bank account .Just bounce the viagra ones etc back & block the sender .I haven't had any more since

wow! thank you so much sewlikedawn

THANK YOU sewlikedawn! I hate those things and I think the people to 'invent' them should be ashamed of themselves as the viruses can cause so much stress to people who have lost everything on their computers.
Thanks again, Kathy

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by katmug 15 Nov 2010

Dawn I like you code name so much I had to use it but forgot to use your actual name at the end. Sorry.

Thank you Dawn. We are warned about these things every year but sometimes need a reminder. I have sent your warning to all in my address book. Have put the date as these e-mails can easily be dismissed as being OLD. *4U. Marg

Your welcome!!!

Thank you for letting us know.

thank you

Thank you for letting us know. We need to be reminded again and again.

Thank you for letting us know.