I did double check on snopes and it is true. I pasted the link below so you can check out details if you would like. - Joan

snopes.com: 'Postcard from a Family Member' virus




better safe than a sick computer....


PLEASE FORWARD THIS WARNING AMONG FRIENDS, FAMILY AND CONTACTS!
You should be alert during the next few days. Do not open any message with an
attachme nt entitled 'POSTCARD FROM HALLMARK,' regardless of who sent it to you.
It is a virus which opens A POSTCARD IMAGE, which 'burns' the whole hard disc C
of your computer. This virus will be received from someone who has your e-mail
address in his/her contact list. This is the reason why you need to send this
e-mail to all your contacts It is better to receive this message 25 times than
to receive the virus and open it.
If you receive a mail called' POSTCARD,' even though sent to you by a friend, do
not open it! Shut down your computer immediately.
This is the worst virus announced by CNN. It has been classified by Microsoft as
the most destructive virus ever. This virus was discovered by McAfee yesterday,
and there is no repair yet for this kind of virus. This virus simply destroys
the Zero Sector of the Hard Disc, where the vital information is kept.
COPY THIS E-MAIL, AND SEND IT TO YOUR FRIENDS. REMEMBER: IF YOU SEND IT TO THEM,
YOU WILL BENEFIT ALL OF US

Snopes lists all the names it could come in.


BIG VIRUS COMING !!! PLEASE READ & FORWARD !!!

Yet another reason to have a Mac....

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I get these all the time.I knew it was either spam or a virus cause nobody in my immediate family has a computer.Only have an aunt that ever emails me and those usually have something religious in the subject.

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If you don't open attachments you didn't expect, you can save yourself a lot of grief. That is, if I tell you I'm about to send you a picture, the next jpeg you get from me is probably safe, but don't open files if you don't know what they are, especially if they end in a file extension you don't know, or that ends in 'exe'.

That said, while the potential for getting viruses through attachments is real, this message is still a hoax. I'm not sure what's meant by burning a hard drive, it's pretty sensational, and Google has a bunch of hits for it. The way I checked was to put some of the text between quotes, to keep it together as a phrase, and then searched for that. More on the message, and chain-letter style warnings, here: Sophos hoax description: Sector Zero

this has been around for quite awhile now and even though snopes has confirmed the threat as real, the email being passed around saying snopes says it's true isn't entirely accurate. CNN didn't declare it the "worst ever" and it won't burn your entire harddrive. No doubt it is a worrisome thing but not as horrific or sensational as reported.

Never, ever open attachments, even from friends, until you have personally confirmed with them that they actually sent it. It may come from their email address but if their sister in law's brother's cousin's best friend has your email address in their address book or on their computer (perhaps from all those jokes being passed around where NO ONE removes all those previous forwards or other people's email addresses??? grrr) and that person gets infected with this worm, that virus/worm will send out email that appears to come from anyone whose email address it grabs.

Can't believe we still have to warn people of this stuff but if people are STILL falling for it, guess we do. So thanks for posting a needed reminder to all!