VIRUS ALERT PLEASE READ AND PASS IT ON

vermillion · Post by **vermillion** » Wed Oct 22, 2008 9:54 pm

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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

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Post by **MarinaCoupe** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 6:25 pm

Hi

I thought that I had seen this before, so checked on Google. Please read the links below at Wikipedia and Symantec - this is a HOAX.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_is_be ... virus_hoax

http://www.symantec.com/security_respon ... 99&tabid=2

vermillion · Post by **vermillion** » Thu Oct 23, 2008 9:45 pm

Really glad that you found that information out Chris.

In this day and age you can't be to careful. I have had one sent to me in the last couple of months and it was disguised as an email. All I did was highlight it to delete it and that was enough to take over my P.C. I ended up having to have the whole P.C. set up from scratch and lost everything on it.

Post by **MarinaCoupe** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 10:21 am

You and me both Gary - my main PC was down for 3 weeks earlier this year, I was workin off my Laptop.

I had something called a Rootkit Trojan, which wanted to send all my bank details to a website in Russia!

Kilroy · Post by **Kilroy** » Sat Oct 25, 2008 11:33 am

Guys
A virus is by definition - something that replicates itself.
Anything that destroys your hard drive - destroys itself in the process.
That cannot be a virus.
Hand grenade perhaps.
Fact is - how could it spread.?
Over 90% of all "warnings" are garbage.
Best do your own research before passing any of them on.
Cheers,
Kilroy