Warning: new virus (confirmed by Snopes) [1 Attachment]

[Shannon Nelson]

Last updated 30 Nov. 2008 (http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/mailserver.asp) Snopes reproduces the exact notice below, and summarizes: "This latter version is difficult to classify as either "true" or "false": The virus it references (i.e. the Mail Server Report worm) was a real one, but it's neither new or currently rampant (as claimed in the warning text), nor does it manifest itself in the fashion described (since the "symptoms" provided in the warning are merely a reworking of the text of an earlier virus hoax). All in all, that message doesn't really merit the dire warning to "SEND A COPY OF THIS TO ALL YOUR FIRENDS, and ask them to PASS IT ON IMMEDIATELY!"

I think it's better that we check the Snopes reference at the Snopes website, before passing stuff along...

Shannon
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