Att IT gurus

[Chucaro]

I have this email today and would like to know if any of you have it:

QUOTE:

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


Cheers

[Ace]

i havent received it but most emails like that are a hoax

[Rugrat]

i havent received it but most emails like that are a hoax

HOAX....

FYI - the below site is a decent sorce for info
Latest Email Hoaxes - Current Internet Scams - Hoax-Slayer (http://www.hoax-slayer.com/)

There are others - CA's Virus encyclopedia etc but this is ok :)

[steveG]

You can check most of these type of emails out by grabbing a distinctive phrase from the email and sticking it in Google.
In this case I used "may receive an apparently harmless email with a Power Point presentation".
One of the top results was this one which confirmed my suspicions:
Life is Beautiful Virus Hoax (http://www.hoax-slayer.com/life-is-beautiful-virus-hoax.html)

SteveG

[vnx205]

It has been around for a while.
It is a hoax.
snopes.com: Life Is Beautiful Virus (http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/lifeisbeautiful.asp)

[Chucaro]

Thank you for the replies and links ;)

[101RRS]

Not sure if it is relevant or not - but there was a news article on TV that Microsoft expect a full on Virus Attack on MS systems around the world tomorrow. It is April Fools day so who knows whether the news article is real or not.

Garry

[Sprint]

*sighs* i cant believe how many people fall for these!

[mike 90 RR]

*sighs*


... I'm still waiting for that poor woman :( that has the 1 million to transfer to my account ... :cool:

[JDNSW]

Not sure if it is relevant or not - but there was a news article on TV that Microsoft expect a full on Virus Attack on MS systems around the world tomorrow. It is April Fools day so who knows whether the news article is real or not.

Garry

The conficker worm is supposed to do something (nobody seems to know exactly what) on 1/4/09. This is a very widespread and difficult to remove worm, which invades unpatched Windows computers with easily cracked passwords. It can get there via networks or usb drives etc.

It depends on the presence of an unpatched Windows bug and easy passwords. The first symptoms of infection will be that the Windows and virus software updates stop working.

See Conficker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

John

[mike 90 RR]

Only one million :eek: I won far more than that this week!! ;)

... Well I didn't believe the Nigerian bloke ... I mean who forgets they have & mislay's 10 million ... and he was a real pig on the phone too :mad:

[miky]

Why anyone would open a file unless it came from a trusted source and even then after it had passed their virus checker software is beyond me!

Everyone who sends me emails knows not to send junk or joke stuff. Immediately gets deleted.

[cal415]

Considering how many of these things are out there/have been out there and how well warned we are of them perhaps if your silly enough to be opening them you should be staying away from the computer!

Working in the IT industry for the last 11 years i have had the displeasure to deal with most types of virus's/worms/trojan/malware/adware there is, theres no sure way to avoid it all, but things like extremely obvious emails such as this shouldnt even be a factor any more, Now im sure most would admit to how boring email would be without all the funny pics and jokes etc, im sure no one who has spent any significant time using email/internet would be opening them from someone they didnt know....

....and as for those people silly enough to forward the "chain emails" because microsoft will give you 100 dollars/it will bring you luck for 7 days/you wish will come true/you will save 10 starving children in africa/jessica alba will jump out of your computer and do pleasurable things to you/etc etc etc i think its time to wake up and smell the capacitors burning, its a computer not a crystal ball!!

[hook]

Chain emails are just there to fill up emaill account in around the world.

[djhampson]

Heres a tip if it says..


PLEASE SEND A COPY OF THIS EMAIL TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS and ask them to PASS IT ON IMMEDIATELY
99.99999999% its FAKE! :D