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WARNING !!!!
I M P O R T A N T W A R N I NG ! ! ! ! ! !
Anyone-using Internet mail such as Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL and so on.
This information arrived this morning, Direct from both Microsoft and Norton.
You may receive an apparently harmless e-mail 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 now, 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.
This is a new virus which started to circulate on Saturday afternoon.
AOL has already confirmed the severity, and the anti virus software's are not capable of destroying
it.
The virus has been created by a hacker who calls himself "life owner".
Sounds as if that "life owner" thug needs to get a life worthwhile
Thanks for the warning
~*Thunderous MidNight*~
thanks for letting me know christina, i'll keep an eye out for it, and let my other friends know
Thanks for the heads up there, that's really cool of you. Agree with the poster who said life owner needs to get a life. Cheers, Simon
Right so, cheers for this
what an eejit he/she is.
Stevie
thanks for posting this, I know someone who has an AOL account, and I'm going to tell her just as soon as she calls me back.
Anyone who opens powerpoints they arn't expecting is an idiot, and if they lose everything oh well. Quit wasting time and bandwidth by posting this crap. The virus probably isn't even real and it's just a scare message that's being sent around.
I wish people would do just a little bit of basic research instead of sending this crap around. This is a hoax plain and simple. the virus doesn't exist. I sourced the following from:
http://www.hoax-slayer.com/life-is-beautiful-virus-hoax.html.
This "warning" claims that a very destructive virus disguised as a Power Point Presentation called "Life is beautiful" is currently being distributed via
email. However, there is not, nor has there ever been a virus like the one described in this message.
There are several variants of the hoax, including versions in Chinese, French, Spanish, Italian and several other languages. The message tries to add authority
to its claims by mentioning high-profile companies such as Microsoft and AOL. Incidentally, Microsoft does not send out unsolicited virus warnings. Moreover,
"Norton" is the name given to a range of security software products sold by Symantec Corp. Thus, information about virus threats is published by "Symantec",
not "Norton". In this case, Symantec has published information about the "Life is beautiful" message - but only to
denounce it as a hoax.
This hoax started circulating in early 2002 and it has been passed around ever since. In spite of a great deal of online exposure, the hoax tends to resurge
from time to time and its rate of circulation increases dramatically for a few months. As hoax emails go, this is one of the most "successful". Perhaps
because of the apparent destructiveness of the "virus" and the urgent tone of the warning, people are apt to forward the message without much forethought.
Like many other hoaxes, it capitalizes on the recipient's desire to help other Internet users by warning them of a perceived threat.
Before forwarding a virus warning email, it is always a good idea to check that the information in the message is valid. Virus hoaxes are quite common,
and like this one, they tend to circulate for years after they are first launched. In other cases, virus warnings that may have been originally true circulate
long after the described virus has ceased to be a significant threat. Virus hoaxes and outdated warnings are no help to anybody. All they do is waste time,
cause confusion and needlessly clutter inboxes. Such problems mean that forwarding
warning emails
may not be the best way to help battle viruses and other computer security threats.
If you receive this email hoax, please help to stop its continued circulation by letting the sender know that it is a hoax and should not be forwarded.
Dan.
Good of you Harp to have posted that
web address for the locating of hoaxes.
I've placed it under "save"
Had it not been for Medical Queen's
warning here I doubt that I would have heard of it.
Still for all those blasted hackers and the like out there
Have they none else to do?
To Life Well Lived
Cheers
~*Thunderous MidNight*~
This reminds me of something I received a few months ago saying that hotmail was going to be premium only. Anyway, I activated the link which was supposed to link to the evidence that it was true, and the article was a rfew years out of date. I wondered how many people would be clever enough to realise that. Anyway, assuming that the big email providers were aware of some viress, wouldn't they update their services to automatically dispose of those emails?
I don't know if this is true, but I was on zone by phone, and I heard there was a trojan that when ran, sounded like narrator, and said, deleting system files. No antivirus software can detect it, and you can't stop the virus.
Probably as big a lie as this one is.
Bob
well if this a hoax and this space can be used for other things, delete the topic please??
I use a very simple rule of thumb to determine whether something is legit or not. Any e-mail that asks, tells or orders me to send it on to others is immediately zapped because it just lost its credibility. Who it came from, no matter how trusted does not matter. It's the content and the language used that's important. People write these e-mails because they want to make you feel as if you are some kind of insider with insider info that not even the news networks can get hold of, and it's your job to save your fellow netizens, and only you can do it if you just hit that forward button. They're nothing more than lousy stinking yucky worthless useless chain letters.
If you are unsure if something is true, Snopes.com is always a good resource. But please, just because something might be true doesn't mean that only you can save the world from the laest whatever. Most likely some well-meaning person just made a sucker out of you because they forwarded on a maybe.
The thing I hate is that people are too lazy to investigate for themselves.
They just send something on in hopes of scaring their fellow zoners, not caring whether it is true or not.
Cyber rumor munggering.
Bob
I fully agree with the last post.
Total and utter bollucks and scare mungery! O, and one last thing! Since these boards can be read via a Google search, f'f'f'f'f'f'f'f'fuck you'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u'u so-called life owner!
Jen.
I don't know if ti is true or not but if it isthat hacker needs to get a life and soon. I have a simple rule for email. If the message is from some one I don't know it goes right t th trash.
I have a simple rule for email. I it has an attachment, run it through all my security scans, test the extension, and run it through my mail program. If it goes through the gontlet, it's in. If not, it's out, and I don't care what it was.
How can uyou test file exstentions?
Sorry, I meant look at file extensions. If it says .docu, don't open it. If it says .doc and you've checked it through your protection, let it through and open it.
How can you research a virus if you don't know the exact name.
Some look like normal files. At least that's what I heard.