Virus Profile: A Virtual Card For You Hoax
Risk Assessment
- Home Users: N/A
- Corporate Users: N/A
Date Discovered: 11/16/2000
Date Added: 11/16/2000
Origin: N/A
Length: N/A
Type: Hoax
SubType: E-mail
DAT Required: N/A
Virus Characteristics
-- Update Dec 01, 2003 --
The El Financiero Satellite News Service has published the article "A New Powerful Computer Virus Unleashed", which was based on this hoax rather than an actual virus.
AVERT HOAX Notice!!
McAfee AVERT Labs would like to inform you of an email HOAX.
This email message is just a HOAX, currently we know of no other message that the user will receive about the HOAX as the initial email states. AVERT has not received any report of a user's hard drive being erased for opening the email.
We are advising users who receive the email to delete it and DO NOT pass it on as this is how an email HOAX propagates.
Below is the actual text from the message that may be received via email.
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