Well, what I thought was that the virus which turned out to be fake was a 
message with a file attached to it with an exe or com file containing the 
virus.  I did not think it would destroy your hard drive just by opening it.  
I was in a hurry and did not read the message really closely, and posted it 
right away.    
Quoting Rory Hansen To Paul Heldt:
I'm really sick and tired of all these FAKE virus warnings. There is no
way a virus could format your harddrive from opening an e-mail. The only
way a virus could be passed by e-mail was if the sender file attached an
executable or an infected document that the user ran before scanning it.
Sorry, this is fake.
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