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Offline marylandeer

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E-MAIL WARNING
« on: January 13, 2005, 11:48:00 AM »
I received this and thought I would pass it along.

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 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 gain ac cess 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 Software's 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 and PASS IT ON IMMEDIATELY

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E-MAIL WARNING
« Reply #1 on: January 13, 2005, 01:05:45 PM »
According to Symantec, it's a hoax...Before crying wolf, it's a good idea to verify if the threat is real or not, a simple google search revealed a bunch of hoax info on this innocuous email. :wink:
 
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/life.is.beautiful.hoax.html

http://www.breakthechain.org/exclusives/lifevirus.html

http://antivirus.about.com/od/emailhoaxes/p/lifeis.htm
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