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[FRY]

VERY IMPORTANT WARNING!!
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 l ate 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 ."

 

[herman]

Definitely :bump:worthy!!! Thanks Fry.

 

[romain]

Life is beautiful Hoax

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• SUMMARY
• TECHNICAL DETAILS

Discovered: January 15, 2002
Updated: September 18, 2002 08:18:39 PM PDT
Type: Hoax
Symantec Security Response encourages you to ignore any messages regarding this hoax. It is harmless and is intended only to cause unwarranted concern. Please ignore any messages regarding this hoax and do not pass on messages. Passing on messages about the hoax only serves to further propagate it.



Writeup By: George Koris

 

[Deanos]

:headache: What to believe?! :spin:

 

[digitalreefer]

If Symantec says it's a hoax, it is indeed a hoax only.

 

[FRY]

romain thanks for the link

 

[herman]

And I just find out it dont apply to me anyway

 

[reefman]

This is a hoax. http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/HBMalCode.shtml#beautifula valid place to check if its a hoax is hoaxbusters

hoax r mostly attention getters. people want to see how much circulation their creation can get n how fast. this increases traffic on the internet n slow down all our surfing speed. it also cost isp lots of $ which in turn costs every1 using the web.

 

[Chiefmcfuz]

Here's my general rule of e-mail.

" If you don't know who sent it to you, delete it. If it contains the word or phrase Foward or FWD in the subject line delete it. If it contains a download that I didn't ask to be sent to me, delete it. "


Chiefs E-Mail rule of thumb.

 

[masterswimmer]

Here's my general rule of e-mail.

" If you don't know who sent it to you, delete it. If it contains the word or phrase Foward or FWD in the subject line delete it. If it contains a download that I didn't ask to be sent to me, delete it. "


Chiefs E-Mail rule of thumb.

My philosophy also Chief. I also immediately report as spam any email with the subject line that reads, 'Hi I'm <girls name here>'. Also blank subject lines go bye bye

swimmer