New Computer Virus **Warning **

ceebeeby

**Sorry if this has been posted somewhere else **

Subject: FW: E-MAIL VERY IMPORTANT WARNING

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>Please Be Extremely Careful especially if using internet mail such as

>Yahoo,

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>Hotmail, AOL and so on. This information arrived this morning direct from

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>both Microsoft and Norton.

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>Please send it to everybody you know who has access to the Internet.

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>You may receive an apparently harmless email with a Power Point

>presentation

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>"Life is beautiful."

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>If you receive it DO NOT OPEN THE FILE UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, and delete

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>it immediately. If you open this file, a message will appear on your screen

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>saying: "It is too late now, your life is no longer beautiful."

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>Subsequently you will LOSE EVERYTHING IN YOUR PC and the person who sent it

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>to you will gain access to your name, e-mail and password.

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>This is a new virus which started to circulate on Saturday afternoon. AOL

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>has already confirmed the severity, and the antivirus software's are not

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>capable of destroying it. The virus has been created by a hacker who calls

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>himself "life owner."

:eek:

intel

Mmm whats the name of the virus then....

Thought I recognised it

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/life.is.beautiful.hoax.html

HOAX

ceebeeby

intel wrote:

Mmm whats the name of the virus then....

Thought I recognised it

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/life.is.beautiful.hoax.html

HOAX

I'm so glad there's some real techie people out there ... thank you!!!!!! I would never have know this was a hoax otherwise - will pass on to my non MSE friends that it's a dud! :T

intel

ceebeeby wrote:

I'm so glad there's some real techie people out there ... thank you!!!!!! I would never have know this was a hoax otherwise - will pass on to my non MSE friends that it's a dud! :T

I think theres a Xmas rush on. :rotfl:

Rikki

intel wrote:

I think theres a Xmas rush on. :rotfl:

JimArnold

If you ever receive a message which warns of a virus and tells you that Symantec/Norton/McAffee etc can't detect it then you can safely assume its a hoax - especially if tells you to search for a file and then delete it.

While it is possible for someone to write a virus which current AV programs won't detect the AV companies will work night and day to adapt their software to detect all common viruses and most of the uncommon ones

pchelpman

For those of you who like researching hoaxes....

http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/

John_Gray

The Gullibility Virus article is still worth a read!

John

charlieheard

The_Daily_Telegraph wrote:

The Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Times say that the Ford Motor Corporation has told everyone not to use BP fuel as their cars might explode because the fuel was dangerous. Please photocopy this letter and pass it on to all of your friends

What would you do if I sent you a photocopied letter telling you this?. Would you believe me? Would you do it? Of course not!

This is an email virus, just passed on by people instead of automatically. Just check on Symantec for these hoaxes. Apart from local IT support, I have never had a real message like this in over 15 years.

A_lazy_virus_writer wrote:

Please pass this message on to your friends, then delete all the files on your PC

EvilMonkey

Like Jim and Charlie say, by the time an average bod gets an email about a NEW "virus" it'd be too late as either:-

a.) they're infected already
b.) the AV writers have already sorted it and issued updates.

I've worked in IT support for 10 years and have seen 1 outbreak on my system. It was a mutated version of a fairly common virus. We were the first people worldwide to report it and our AV company issued an update to block it within 4 hours.

But to be honest you'll never stop this kind of thing, from 1 office of about 800 people I used to reliably get a "warning" from a member of staff around once a week.

I just had a standard email reply thanking them for their vigilance, but pointed out that it was a hoax and that they should check it against a hoax list before emailing people....

E.M.