URGENT - Virus Warning

[Steven]

Posted by davieG on another forum. :icon_eek:

 

[Macky]

it's bollix, chain mail

 

[Macky]

...and in other news...AAAAAARRGGGHHH!!
RUN FOR YOUR LIFE, THE SKY IS FALLING DOWN!!!

 

[Naughty Fox]

I know the olypic tourch is a hoax, the email has been around since the winter olypics.

You can subscribe to anti-virus newsletters on Symantec.com or nai.com which will keep you informed with the real threats that are going around.

 

[bocadillo]

...and in other news...AAAAAARRGGGHHH!!
RUN FOR YOUR LIFE, THE SKY IS FALLING DOWN!!!

Don't worry, Chicken Licken - we'll soon have you out of here.

 

[webmaster]

I can't believe people are still getting caught out by these hoaxes.

I've deleted it from Steven's post so no gullible people start emailing it around. There's enough spam going around without rubbish like this.

 

[webmaster]

How to spot a hoax virus warning:

If it says to forward it to everyone in your address book, it's almost certainly a hoax.

If it doesn't contain a date to say when the alleged virus outbreak started, it's almost certainly a hoax.

If it makes claims about it being reported by seemingly reliable sources (the BBC, CNN etc), but doesn't link to a story on their website, it's almost certainly a hoax.

 

[Darth Vodka]

www.snopes.com

innit

 

[Macky]

How to spot a hoax virus warning:

If it says to forward it to everyone in your address book, it's almost certainly a hoax.

If it doesn't contain a date to say when the alleged virus outbreak started, it's almost certainly a hoax.

If it makes claims about it being reported by seemingly reliable sources (the BBC, CNN etc), but doesn't link to a story on their website, it's almost certainly a hoax.

If it was originally posted by davieG on another forum, it's almost certainly a hoax.

 

[bocadillo]

I can't believe people are still getting caught out by these hoaxes.

I can't believe that people get caught out by phishing emails, but they do.

I can't believe that people will flush the toilet seven times when asked to do so by somebody who comes to the door and says he's from the water board. Nor can I believe that people keep £42,000 under the bed so that the bloke who says he's from the water board's mate can just come in and walk off with it - but it happened within ¼ of a mile of me last week.

 

[Macky]

I can't believe that people get caught out by phishing emails, but they do.

I can't believe that people will flush the toilet seven times when asked to do so by somebody who comes to the door and says he's from the water board. Nor can I believe that people keep £42,000 under the bed so that the bloke who says he's from the water board's mate can just come in and walk off with it - but it happened within ¼ of a mile of me last week.

Wow, that's a lot of money & hardly any distance for you to travel Boc.
What are you planning on spending it on?

 

[lazzer]

thanks for the warning :icon_roll
did you know gullible is the only word not found in the english dictionary

 

[Steven]

I thought this was genuine. :icon_redf :icon_redf

 

[MKFox]

YOU MAY WANT TO READ THIS
I saw this asian guy drop his wallet the other day in Milton Keynes shopping centre, so I picked it and followed him, when I handed it back he said, as a kind of reward, not to go to london on august the 12th....:icon_roll

...I was more grateful for the £150 I lifted out of his wallet to be fair....

 

[webmaster]

YOU MAY WANT TO READ THIS
I saw this asian guy drop his wallet the other day in Milton Keynes shopping centre, so I picked it and followed him, when I handed it back he said, as a kind of reward, not to go to london on august the 12th....:icon_roll

...I was more grateful for the £150 I lifted out of his wallet to be fair....

I had something similar happen to me. I handed back a wallet to a bloke and he thanked me, and told me not to go to Milton Keynes. I asked him why, and he said because it's a shit hole.

 

[drummindefender]

YOU MAY WANT TO READ THIS
I saw this asian guy drop his wallet the other day in Milton Keynes shopping centre, so I picked it and followed him, when I handed it back he said, as a kind of reward, not to go to london on august the 12th....:icon_roll

...I was more grateful for the £150 I lifted out of his wallet to be fair....

this rumour was going round leicester last summer if i remember

 

[webmaster]

this rumour was going round leicester last summer if i remember

It's one of those stories that's been around for decades. It used to be that the people giving the warning had Irish accents.

 

[bocadillo]

Wow, that's a lot of money & hardly any distance for you to travel Boc.
What are you planning on spending it on?

Would that I had half that amount to ponder over!!

It's an easy way of 'earning' a living - but I wonder how long it lasted the scrotes that nicked it.

 

[MKFox]

...and told me not to go to Milton Keynes. I asked him why, and he said because it's a shit hole.

That's fecking regionalist you bigot. I demand webbo be banned for airing views that clearly show his provincialistic leanings....

Come on Steven, shout my rights for me....:icon_bigg

 

[MKFox]

but I wonder how long it lasted the scrotes that nicked it.

May have bought their ma a new caravan, she's terrible partial to perriwinkle blue.