Morgans schrieb:

There is also the possibility that the virus is too new to be detected by
anti virus programs.

The anti virus program people are pretty quick. If you have installed a
serious anti virus program and have subsribed for authomatic updates,
then you are pretty safe.

If a warning helps other people to not get hit, I'll take them and send
them, anytime. If a few turn out to be hoaxes, I guess I can live with
that.

Serious virus warnings are *never* distributed by e-mails like the one
you posted. Actually, this e-mail itself can be considered a kind of
virus, because it fills mailboxes, wastes people's time and probably
causes some friendly christmas mails to be deleted unread.