Originally Posted by WarChild

This is of course a hoax. There's two very important clues to this age old hoax.

Here's your first clue. Simply opening an email message doesn't give you a virus. How could it possibly given the number of different email clients, webmail clients, etc, etc.



And here's the second clue, and the actual "virus" payload. A whole bunch of people mailing the same crap around wasting everyone's time.