friend sent warning now I send to you all / myLot

United States

January 15, 2009 9:36am CST

This is the email I received: THERE IS AN EMAIL WITH SUBJECT LINE OBAMA ACCEPTANCE SPEECH FLOATING AROUND WITH A TROJAN HORSE ATTACHMENT. DO NOT OPEN FOR ANY REASON!!! DELETE IMMEDIATELY. THE TROJAN STEALS ALL PASSWORDS AND USER IDS!!! SPREAD THE WORD TO EVERYONE ON YOUR EMAIL LIST Here is the snopes address: http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/obamaspeech.asp it appears to be legit. There are a bunch of other similar email tittles to look out for. What makes people do these things?

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jessi0887

@jessi0887 (2788)

• United States

15 Jan 09

Thanks for the heads up.

ersmommy1

@ersmommy1 (12587)

• United States

15 Jan 09

your very welcome

DaddyOfTheRose

@DaddyOfTheRose (2934)

• United States

21 Jan 09

I like snopes. Really, I like snopes. It is useful to be able to look up email warnings. This has to be one of the few virus warnings to come in email which was actually true. :)

Stephannie

@stephcjh (38473)

• United States

15 Jan 09

Wow. Thanks for the warning. I hate computer problems that come from viruses. Thanks for sharing with us.

lilybug

@lilybug (21107)

• United States

15 Jan 09

I don't know why people do things like that. I guess those people have no morals and really don't care about hurting other people by infecting their computers and stealing their information. Thanks for the heads up.