Well, half the words are correct. It is on Snopes but it is NOT real.
This is a hoax Here is the snopes link. I know the email said it was true and also said it was on snopes as true, but .... (they lied)
http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/invitation.asp
A program that creates an olympic torch that burns your C: drive? Yea! Someone has invented the Star Trek Replicator! They are going to make million$!
Seriously, If anyone sends you an email that says send to more people, this is SPAM. It is like shouting "fire" in a movie theater. It is only trying to get all the lemmings to run off the cliff. (cute lemming cartoon here) http://www.londonstimes.us/toons/cartoons/johann_lemmingsphone.jpg
Please to do not create spam. There is already plenty. Please check snopes yourself. There is never a substitute for a primary reference.
CTH
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Charles T. Hart M.Ed.
Walker Teaching Resource Center
Senior Instructional Developer
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
615 McCallie Avenue, 401B Hunter Hall
Chattanooga, TN 37403
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> To: [log in to unmask]; Karen Drake; [log in to unmask];
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> From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 9:23 AM
> To: Carolyn White; Deirdre Stevenson; Elayne Parker; Louise Jones
> Subject: FW: Urgent
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> From: [log in to unmask]
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Urgent
> Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 12:39:52 +0000
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> URGENT !!)
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> BETTER SAFE THAN SORRY. READ AND HEED.
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> This has been verified with Snopes and it is REAL.
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> PLEASE INFORM EVERYONE
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> Emails with pictures of Osama Bin-Laden hanged are being sent
> and the
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> moment that you open these emails your computer will crash and
> you will
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> not be able to fix it!
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> If you get an email along the lines of "Osama Bin Laden
> Captured"
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> or "Osama Hanged" don't open the attachment.
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> This e-mail is being distributed through countries around the
> globe, but
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> mainly in the US and Israel
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> Be considerate & send this warning to whomever you know.
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> PLEASE FORWARD THIS WARNING AMONG FRIENDS, FAMILY AND
> CONTACTS:
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> You should be alert during the next days:
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> Do not open any message with an attached file called
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> "Invitation" regardless of who sent it.
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> It is a virus that opens an Olympic Torch which "burns" the
> whole hard
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> disc C of your computer.
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> This virus will be received from someone who has your e-mail
> address in
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> his/her contact list, that is why you should send this e-mail to
> all
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> your contacts.
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> It is better to receive this message 25 times than to receive
> the virus
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> and open it.
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> If you receive a mail called "invitation", though sent by a
> friend, do
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> not open it and shut down your computer immediately.
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> This is the worst virus announced by CNN, it has been classified
> by
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> Microsoft as the most destructive virus ever.
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> This virus was discovered by McAfee yesterday, and there is no
> repair
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> yet for this kind of virus.
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> This virus simply destroys the Zero Sector of the Hard Disc,
> where the
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> vital information is kept.
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> SEND THIS E-MAIL TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW
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