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http://vmyths.com/hoax.cfm?id=222&page=3

A Virtual Card for You virus

A typical variation of the original Good Times hoax virus alert (see related
link). It claims your computer will suffer a horrible death if you read "a
virtual card for you" with your eyeballs.

Fact: you just read "a virtual card for you" with your eyeballs, but your
computer didn't self-destruct. Need we say more?

One variant of this hoax claims "Microsoft and McAfee" announced the alert,
and it's "THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE OF ALL TIMES!!!!", and "THERE IS STILL NOT
DEVELOPED A VACCINE!!!!" Naturally, it urges you to "PLEASE, DISTRIBUTE TO
THE LARGEST NUMBER OF PEOPLE!!!!"

--11/13/00


http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/virtual.card.hoax.html

Description 

The following message has been sent out by email. It is a hoax. This "virus"
does not exist.

The hoax message includes the following "warning": 

WARNING

DO NOT OPEN THE VIRTUAL CARD. There is a virus 
spreading through the lists of roots web. One 
of the was is gets around the filters and other 
protection devices that roots web has is through 
ruses like this. It's a virus that mails itself 
using names it pickup up from the computers it 
gets into.  Do Not Trust this simply because it 
mentions Cynthia's name. It is also using her 
e-mail address. This is one of those viruses 
Cynthia has been warning us about.  I've been 
seeing it on other lists that I belong to. 
I can't type the name of the virus. According 
to the semantic sight just typing certain word 
will send this insidious thing along to others. 
I've seen it happen once tonight in a message 
I sent to another list. I am not going to put 
that on this list. I've already updated my 
anti virus program since then, but I'm not going 
to take the chance.

There are two ways this virus is being spread. 
One is through a specific web address, the other 
is through a greeting card invitation like this one. 
The web address appears as a hyper link. Another of 
the things that is happening is people are getting 
e-mails sent to them from themselves. These 
e-mails contain the virus.




Please ignore any messages regarding this "hoax" and do not pass on any
messages regarding it. Passing on messages about this hoax serves only to
further propagate it.

Write-up by: Motoaki Yamamura
Dec 28, 1999