Topic: Email virus - beware!

[SnooziSuzi]

This arrived in my email today - Haven't substanciated it but it can't hurt to put the word out....


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

[Rhubarb Thrasher]

An Hoax

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/life-is-beautiful-virus-hoax.html

[SnooziSuzi]

Well, as I had said I hadn't substantiated it but that link certainly knocks it on the head! 

[asbean]

Pretty well all of these emails circulated are warning about hoaxes.

[silverbirch]

They are actually a form of pseudo-virus.  I've got probably over 100 names in my address book.  So, I send 100 emails.  If the people I send it to have 100 addresses and send it on, and the next lot and the next lot and the next lot, then that could generate 10 BILLION emails which would start to crash the servers.

[Multiveg]

"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 "

I think that gives the game away!