Virus on the loose.....

[LA_Cruiser]

A friend e-mailed this:

>>IMPORTANT WARNING... Please Be Extremely Careful
>>Especially if using
>>internet mail such as Yahoo, Hotmail and so on. 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 Power Point presentation "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, e-mail 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 the
>>severity, and the antivirus Softs are not capable of
>>destroying it. The
>>virus has been created by a hacker who calls himself
>>"life owner",
>>PLEASE MAKE A COPY OF THIS EMAIL TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS
>>PASS IT

God Bless all

 

[Ross]

Don't Be Alarmed, It's A Hoax!

Don't Be Alarmed, It's A Hoax!

Anytime you get an email that says Microsoft, AOL, Yahoo or whatever and some virus company, it's always a hoax. The only ones that issue warnings are virus companies themselves. You can read about the hoax at the link below:
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/life.is.beautiful.hoax.html

Reported on: January 15, 2002
Last Updated on: September 17, 2002 08:18:39 PM

Symantec Security Response encourages you to ignore any messages regarding this hoax. It is harmless and is intended only to cause unwarranted concern.


Type: Hoax

 

[Bunny_Rabbit]

Yep. You shouldn't believe everything you get in an email.

The best thing to do is do a search for the virus in question on the web and see what you find. I'll go out on a limb and say that 100% of the time you'll see that it's a hoax.

My rule of thumb is, never open any email attachment with the file extension of ".exe" or things that I'm unsure of.

 

[LA_Cruiser]

THX Ross & Bunny Rabbit.....

THX Ross & Bunny Rabbit.....

THX 4 the link Ross

I'll e-mail it to my friend.

God Bless all