VERY IMPORTANT WARNING (This is not a joke!)

arae24

I have posted this on this bord as a lot of people read it.


VERY IMPORTANT WARNING
>>>>
>>>> This is not a joke!
>>>>
>>>> Please Be Extremely Careful especially if 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 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 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 EMAIL TO ALL YOUR
>>>>FRIENDS and ask them to PASS IT ON IMMEDIATELY.

andrew_b6k

welcome to the internet

Ted_Hutchinson

ANOTHER HOAXER OR HOAXED PERSON

AccordionBoy_2

Another Hoax indeed, check out Norton if you need proof...!
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/life.is.beautiful.hoax.html

master_blaster_2

this is a hoax warning
please follow the link below to the symantax site where it explained
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/life.is.beautiful.hoax.html


please check with these type of site before posting any warnings like this as it can cause concern to a lot of people

i know they are sent on in good faith (sometimes) but they do concern some people unnessary

Poppycat

As this isn't a bargain surely the tech forum would have been best placed. TBH these hoaxs are here all the time. You always have to be vigalent.

arae24

AccordionBoy wrote:

Another Hoax indeed, check out Norton if you need proof...!
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/life.is.beautiful.hoax.html

Thankyou I honestly did not know this was a hoax. I posted with the best iintentions.

Poppycat

I am sure you did. Best to be always on your guard

arae24 wrote:

I posted with the best iintentions.

redfox

moved to the Techie board as this isn't a Grabbit bargain!

John_Gray

Yes, the Life is Beautiful virus hoax is over three years old now... (Apparently the first virus hoax came out in 1988!).

The website also has some good information on how to spot a virus hoax, and Googling for "virus hoax" comes up with lots of antivirus firms' websites dealing with this area.

And of course there's the ancient but still amusing Gullibility Virus!

John