email virus beware!!!

[bongo]

had this sent to me today....

 

> 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

 

 

dont know the severity of this but just to let you know,iv'e posted it up.

>

Edited May 7, 2008 by bongo

[danposs86]

> Please send it to everybody you know who has

> access to the Internet.

 

> PLEASE SEND A COPY OF THIS EMAIL TO ALL YOUR

> FRIENDS and ask them to PASS IT ON IMMEDIATELY

 

Thats the bit that Pees me off. Fcuking spam.

[Apnea]

Lol, I still find it funny when people take these seriously, it took me an hour to reasure a guy at work that he had been sent one via text.

[mar_k]

Life is beautiful virus hoax

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For other uses, see Life is Beautiful (disambiguation).

The Life is Beautiful virus hoax is an e-mail hoax which began circulating on the Internet around January 2002. The e-mail details a virus contained in a Microsoft PowerPoint attachment which is supposedly called Life is beautiful.pps. To date, no such virus has been found and the e-mail is widely considered a hoax.

 

The e-mail claims to be based upon information from Microsoft and Norton. Symantec, the makers of Norton AntiVirus have issued an advisory stating that the e-mail is a hoax.[1]

 

The hoax e-mail continues by saying that the virus was made by a person who is suing Microsoft in court for patent infringement.

 

 

[edit] Sample E-Mail

This is a sample of the English version of the hoax.

 

URGENT! VIRUS!

 

This information arrived this morning, from Microsoft and Norton.

 

Please send it to everybody you know who accesses the Internet.

 

You may receive an apparently harmless email with a PowerPoint presentation called "Life is beautiful.pps."

 

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, email and password.

 

This is a new virus which started to circulate on Saturday afternoon. WE NEED TO DO EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO STOP THIS VIRUS.

 

AOL has already confirmed it's dangerous, and the antivirus softwares are not capable of destroying it.

 

The virus has been created by a hacker who calls himself "life owner", and who aims to destroy domestic PCs and who also fights Microsoft in court!

 

That’s why it comes disguised with extension pps. He fights in court for the Windows-XP patent.

 

MAKE A COPY OF THIS EMAIL TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS.

 

 

[edit] References

^ Koris, George (2002-01-15). Life is beautiful Hoax (HTML). Symantec.com. Symantec. Retrieved on 2007-11-04.

This malware-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

 

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_is_beautiful_virus_hoax"

[Craig855S]

theyre all spam hoax CRAP

[Hezz]

heres a clue peeps, if an email tells you to send it to everybody in the world with similar content to the above, then it will more than likely be a hoax virus email where the originator isnt clever enough to do real coding and attack your address book to send it to them, so instead they are reliant on people being mentally challenged and passing the email on voluntarily

[smithyandco]

There are quite a few email transmitted viruses around atm... got a few pcs in with viruses from opened emails.

[duffa]

lol...its never changed much since i was at school 25 years ago.... " send this letter to 10 of your friends OR YOU WILL DIE !!!!!! " i'm sick of getting the bloody stuff but what can you do... some people beleive if you forward the carp to so many of your friends in 10 minutes you will have a wish come true or if you dont something terrible will happen to you in the next 3 days Edited May 8, 2008 by duffa

[wwwd]

Lol, I still find it funny when people take these seriously, it took me an hour to reasure a guy at work that he had been sent one via text.

Haha! Quality! Text viruses... whatever next?

[foxdie]

its amazing how 2minutes of googling could have saved the embarrisment of posting this on a public forum.

[wwwd]

its amazing how 2minutes of googling could have saved the embarrisment of posting this on a public forum.

Don't you mean 2 seconds?

[foxdie]

its amazing how 2minutes of googling could have saved the embarrisment of posting this on a public forum.

Don't you mean 2 seconds?

 

actually i mean't 1minute 32seconds, but i rounded up for dramatical effect.