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FAMILY
PICTURES VIRUS sent in by Denise
DuMouchel; May 30, 2001
A hoax
virus alert created as a direct rip-off of the PrettyPark
virus alert chain letter. The hoaxster merely changed "PrettyPark"
to "Family Pictures."
Like PrettyPark,
it claims Intel issued the alert, and it urges people to "forward
this to everyone in your address book. I would rather receive
this 25 times than not at all."
Two variations
of this hoax already exist. One calls it the "New Family
Pictures" virus; another calls it the "New Pictures
of Family" virus.
02/15/01
Source:
www.vmyths.com
EMAIL
VIRUS HOAX
Name:
Family Pictures
Type: Virus
hoax
Danger: None
Description:
Text
of the hoax reads as follows: DO NOT OPEN "NEW PICTURES
OF FAMILY" It is a virus that will erase your whole "C"
drive. It will come to you in the form of an I-Mail from a
familiar person. I repeat a friend sent it to me, but called
& warned me before I opened it. He was not
so lucky and now he cant even start his computer!
Forward
this to everyone in your address book. I would rather receive
this 25 times than not at all.
Also:
Intel announced that a new and very destructive virus was
discovered recently. If you receive an email called "FAMILY
PICTURES," do not open it. Delete it right away! This
virus removes all dynamic link libraries (.dll files) from
your computer. Your computer will not be able to boot up
Important:
Many
virus hoaxes:
falsely
claim to describe an extremely dangerous virus use pseudo-technical
language to make impressive-sounding (but impossible) claims
falsely claim that the report was issued or confirmed by a
well-known company ask you to forward it to all your friends
and colleagues.
As usual,
you are urged not to pass on warnings of this kind, as the
continued re-forwarding of these hoaxes simply wastes time
and email bandwidth.
It is
possible that you may receive a hoax via email with a file
attached. Obviously, such file attachments should be treated
with caution as they may be virus infected. Sophos recommends
deleting virus hoax emails, whether they contain file attachments
or not.
Sophos
suggests
a policy to help prevent hoaxes from spreading in
your company.
Source:
www.sophos.com
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