It generates a false alarm by reporting that a virus that does not actually exist is spreading via email.

Windows 2003/XP/2000/NT/ME/98/95

Copa 2006 is not a virus; it is a hoax or an email message that tricks users into thinking that a new virus is spreading via an email message with the attached file Copa del Mundo 2006. In fact, this virus does not actually exist.

Its aim is to cause alarm and get users to forward the message.

In order to avoid problems, disregard this information, as it is completely false. You should also immediately delete the message, without forwarding it to anyone.

Copa 2006 arrives in an apparently normal email message, but which can be identified by its message. The message text always refers to a virus that reaches the computer in an email message with the attached file Copa del Mundo 2006.