Might be a SIAL,just had a phone call telling not to open any Emails that come through with the words, Hallmark Postcard or Hallmark Image,f*cks your hardrive,well thats what i was told

 

How exciting

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

 

if any warning CONTAINS ALL CAPS, says it will destroy your hard drive, or asks to pass on to everyone you know, is probably a hoax

 

But just forward it on anyway, because I've probably only received it 25 times and you never know one of these might be true!

 

I've just been checking my emails now whilst filtering through some choons and had 2 dodgy looking ones from "Paypal". Hover over the supposed safe link in the email and it does indeed say nigeria in the bottom status bar

Wondered why it went straight to my junk folder

 

I find the best thing to do, is forward it back to people who are all ready on the list as receiving it previously

 

Was it this one?

Postcard Image Virus Hoax

 

You'll forget about this email in a month and if then you will receive an email saying "Look at this funny dog", the email will contain a zero day exploit that no one knew about and has already fecked a load of computers around the world before you've even got the email saying "Don't read the email with title "Look at this funny dog"". So you're already fecked. Just delete the email and use caution with any email that contains attachments or links.

Rather than pay attention to the emails in order to protect your PC, the time is better spent keeping your PC up to date with the latest virus definitions and other updates.

BTW the so called mate who passed this on and says it is real. It ain't and no one can ever find the "mate".

 

Im sure Hallmark will be really pleased with that.....

 

Yes its so prevalent, google has zero virus related hits about it. Just putting a technical term in the warning doesn't make it true....