Snopes says this one is REAL. Be careful.



There is a new computer virus going around that claims to be Barack

Obama's acceptance speech. If you receive an E-mail claiming to be Barack
Obama's

acceptance speech *DO NOT OPEN IT. DELETE IT IMMEDIATELY!* Spread

this around to everyone you know. It has been validated on

the Snopes Web Site.



http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/obamaspeech.asp

Thanks. I'll be passing that on.

Thanks for the heads up, Snuff -- I'm sending an alert out to my address book right now.

Most of us already know this, I think, but just in case you don't I'm passing it on. Also, this is why we ERASE all those addresses when we do FWD e mail--so it can't be tracked, and you send to undisclosed recipients...... Please Read [/size] By now, I suspect everyone is familiar with www.snopes.com and/or www.truthorfiction.com for determining whether information received via email is just that: true/false or fact/fiction. Both are excellent sites From the folks that understand best......Read and heed. Use or lose. [size="5"]Advice from Snopes.Com MEMORIZE THIS!

1) Any time you see an E-Mail that says forward this on to '10' of your friends, sign this petition, or you'll get bad luck, good luck, or whatever, it almost always has an E-Mail tracker program attached that tracks the cookies and E-Mails of those folks you forward to. The host sender is getting a copy each time it gets forwarded and then is able to get lists of 'active' E-Mails addresses to use in SPAM E-Mails, or sell to other spammers.


2) Almost all E-Mails that ask you to add your name and forward on to others are similar to that mass letter years ago that asked people to send business cards to the little kid in Florida who wanted to break the Guinness Book of Records for the most cards. All it was, and all any of this type of E-Mail is, is a way to get names and 'cookie' tracking information for telemarketers and spammers - - to validate active E-Mail accounts for their own profitable purposes.

You can do your friends and family members a GREAT favor by sending this information to them; you will be providing a service to your friends, and will be rewarded by not getting thousands of spam E-Mails in the future!

If you have been sending out (FORWARDING) the above kinds of E-Mail, now you know why you get so much SPAM!

Do yourself a favor and STOP adding your name(S) to those types of listings regardless how inviting they might sound!

You may think you are supporting a GREAT cause, but you are NOT in the long run. Instead, you will be getting tons of junk mail later! Plus, we are helping the spammers get rich! Let's don't make it easy for them!

[b]Also: E-Mail petitions are NOT acceptable to Congress or any other organization[/b]. To be acceptable, petitions must have a signed signature and full address of the person signing the petition, and be done individually when done on the internet.