Category: Geeks r Us
Here is something I've just found on the student notice board tonight.
You may receive an apparently harmless email with a Power Point presentation
'Life is beautiful.'
If you receive it DO NOT OPEN THE FILE UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES , and delete it immediately .
If you open this file, a message will appear on your screen saying: 'It is too late no w, your life is no longer beautiful.'
Subsequently you will LOSE EVERYTHING IN YOUR PC and the person who sent it to you will gain access to your name, e-mail and password.
I read about an old virus that was called "I love you". This one kinda reminded me of it.
I always wondered if the had talking viruses. That would creep me out. Especially in Acapella's Allen voice, or Sapi's Microsoft Sam.
I don't seam to get any messages from anyone but thats a lot to do with that not many knows my e-mail. and by the way does anyone know of a email account wear I can create my own e-mail without sighted asistance? thanks.
gmail worked for me; had audio captia and all. and I could create it and preserve my anonymity.
Has anyone checked this thing out on snopes.com? Somehow I think this is not only old news, but a hoax.
For an accessible e-mail account, try googlemail. That's the one I use now and it's more accessible with jaws than say hotmail. I did hear about that virus about a year and a half ago, but at the time I never really used the internet much and didn't have e-mail. I'll get jaws to look out for it though. Hahaha.
here is what snopes.com has to say on the life is beautiful virus.
in paraphrase, it's a hoax. here is the link to the full info page.
http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/life.asp
creepy, chringes
hmmm talking virus? Why would that be bad, and yet cool too?
arg, hoaxes hoaxes hoaxes! these make me angry, though not as angry as other things. What about hotmail shutting down? or about that stupid cellphone virus witha text message, or that stupid message telling you that adding a contact will do this and that... and or what about the one that portraits Christ having sex, ETC ETC? what really makes me ANGRY is how people are retarded and stupid enough to believe everything that is THROWN at them! Though on a side note, i've got the code of the i love you virus.
This as said is a hoax, Mom sent that message to me about that virus in an E-Mail. Hoaxes! Can! go! die!!!!!
Are you sure that page is safe to view without someone getting my email address? Also gmail does work without sighted assistance! I didn't use the audio thing, I just got help from the google support team. Basically they make a google account for you with an alternate email address you might have, then you are able to create gmail service on it without having togo through the captcha.
Juan, just a question, why do you have the code for the i love you virus, and where did you get it from?
Talking things like what were mentioned in an earlier post are certainly possible if someone felt like using the SAPI libraries for whatever programming language they're using.
I have a Gmail and a hot mail account, but I am asking if there was an email server that would let uyou make an email with out haveing to use another on or a nother person. I want to be able to creat an email account just like I created an account on here, NO HELP or NO SIDE ROADS to get to it. thanks for who ever could help with this.
AIM can do it. It has an audio captcha, so u should be fine.
I personally dont like those audio captchas, they're kind of hard to hear! The one with aim isn't that great either.
None of them really are. But if you listen, you can herar it pretty well. Didn't mean to sound angry
there is a reason why they are hard to hear, it's to stop bots from signing up for things. only the human ear can deferentiate the letters from the mush. hth
Ah the wonderful "I love you virus" I did get that. And it almost totally corrupted all my files. Thankfully it didn't corrupt my hard drive. And talking viruses would fefinitely freak me out.
actually, there is at least one talking virus. It says "you have been infected I repeat you have been infected and all of your files has been deletes. sorry and bye bye."
then it deletes all your stuff. Seriously.
Bid D's right, about the talking computer virus. However, I think it's a talking computer worm, not a virus. Viruses and worms are slightly different.
Somehow, I find that really cool that some one wrote that.
... Wow. Haha, sorry, but I can just imagine Microsoft Sam going "You have been infected. I repeat, you have been infected." LOL.
Anyway, how would simply deleting your files give them access to your email and name and stuff? It would have to do more than just delete your files to give someone all your identity info.
Seriously dude, how the hell r u not banned for posting those.
All things take a bit of time.
As a note to others, please don't use the jaws crash words. We take a rather dim view of it here.
I think I found the worm that derrick was talking about.
It was not a virus, it was a worm. When you would boot up windows, after the login sound, u would hear: "Hello how are you i am back come to turkey haaaaaah Now deleting files 5 4 3 2 1 bye bye". That may not be the exact text but I'm pretty sure its close to it. It used the Sapi speech to do this.
guys dont trust these things. they're all hoax.