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Please, don't forward emails (to me or anyone else) without checking the facts - because anyone who does it getting their name on my rouge's gallery .

xxx GREETINGS SHEILA FROM DURHAM xxx

New viruses (for PCs) come out every day; most days see them appear in the 10s, in fact.

Symantec aren't gearing up for anything any more than usual; neither are McAfee or anyone else in the field and nothing is going to burn your hard drive, set fire to your dog or abduct your hamster.

Snopes.com does list this hoax - yes, it's a hoax. The fact that Snopes is mentioned in the email is a cunning (but ultimately exposed) tactic to lull you into forwarding the email which someone on the list of recipents already did.

How long would it take you guys to check the news? Do you think BBC (UK) would have missed such a cataclysmic event? What about just a cursory check with Symantec.com or AVG.com or Avast.com or McAfee.com or Pandasoftware.com etc.

These sites will tell you the facts, but as Sir Winston Churchill wryly observed, "A lie can get round the world faster than the truth can get its pants on."

You're far more likely to get hit by Antivir 2009 or one of its derivatives than you are by "Postcard" which is older than my ZX81 and about as dangerous: and in fact, you're actually spreading the new form of Postcard virus by actually forwarding the email.

Antivir pretends your system is infected by producing a dummy movie on a web popup and then when you panic and click the link to get cleaned (even though you probaly don't have anything mentioned) you get infected with Antivir.

Welcome to a world of pain. Antivir pretends to be your friend (even locking into the security centre, like real anti-virus program does) while actually asking you for money to clean the threats (which don't even exist). And that's assuming that it hasn't already crippled your systems and let a whole raft of other crap in.

Viruses these days don't want to "burn" your drive or rape your budgie; they don't want to delete your stolen porno collection - they want to hide like a parasite unseen and undetected - because the criminal gangs behind them have much better things to do!

THIS is what they are designed to do:

Sell porn & drugs from Viagra to Vicodin & SPAM the crap out of people using your computer and Internet to do, steal your bank details, steal your logins to and eventually steal your identity, your life and your money.

Think Before You Click!