NEW VIRUS
December 15, 2008 11:39 PM EST
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I M P O R T A N T W A R N I NG ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! PLEASE READ!
Pass this on to your email buddies.
Heed the warning. It sounds awful!!!
Anyone using Internet mail such as Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL and so on.
This information arrived this morning, Direct from both Microsoft and Norton.
Please send it to everybody you know who has access to the Internet.
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 antivirus software's
are not capable of destroying it.
The virus has been created by a hacker who calls himself 'life owner'.
PLEASE SEND A COPY OF THIS E-MAIL TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS, And ask them to
PASS IT ON IMMEDIATELY!
THIS HAS BEEN CONFIRMED BY SNOPES
http://www.snopes.com/co mputer/virus/mailserver.asp
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Comments: 17
Life IS Beautiful.pps - HOAX.
If you checked this out with Snopes.com you know it is a hoax. It has a number of give away characteristics. Send to everybody. Received from Microsoft. All keys to a hoax!
It is not new as it has been around since 2002. Power point presentations can contain an executable virus but this is not one. Opening anything like that if you don't trust the source very well is foolish.
After reading yoour comment thread, I see I am not the first to have checke4d Snopes. You are quite right in not opening anything such as this. Screen saver files, executable files, script files, any of htese don't open, just delete.
I use CA Antivirus and have for years. Ive' never had a virus get past it. I've been out on a web page and had it catch a virus. I don't open things that might be virus. AVG is very good and as you noted it is free. I've had it on my machine and don't even remember why I took it off. Macafee makes a good virus checker. I've never used Norton but I've had persons working on the same network as I who had it and didn't have any problem with it. But everyone to their own preference. Just have one and keep it updated!