Thread: Att IT gurus

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

Originally Posted by garrycol

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 [ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conficker]Conficker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

John