Virus Profile: Osama Hanged

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Risk Assessment:	Home N/A \| Corporate N/A
Date Discovered:	9/26/2006
Date Added:	9/28/2006
Origin:	N/A
Length:	N/A
Type:	Hoax
Subtype:	-
DAT Required:	N/A

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McAfee Avert Labs HOAX Notice!!

McAfee Avert Labs would like to inform you of a new 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. McAfee Avert Labs has not received any report of a user's hard drive being erased by opening the email.

We are advising users who receive the email to delete it and DO NOT forward it on as this is how an email HOAX propagates.

Below is the actual text from the message that may be received via email.

THIS IS A HUGE Warning!!!!!PLEASE INFORM EVERYONEEmails with pictures of Osama Bin-Laden hanged are being sent and the moment that you open these emails your computer will crash and you will not be able to fix it!If you get an email along the lines of "Osama Bin Laden Captured"or "Osama Hanged" don't open the attachment.This e-mail is being distributed through countries around the globe, but mainly in the US and Israel.Be considerate & send this warning to whomever you know.PLEASE FORWARD THIS WARNING AMONG FRIENDS, FAMILY AND CONTACTS: You should be alert during the next days:Do not open any message with an attached file called "Invitation" regardless of who sent it.It is a virus that opens an Olympic Torch 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, that is why you should 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 "invitation", though sent by a friend, do not open it and 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.

Again, if you receive this email delete it and DO NOT forward it on.
McAfee Avert Labs

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