Just heard about this on another website i use,don't know whether it's real but better to be safe than sorry EXTREMELY IMPORTANT WARNING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > Please be extremely careful, especially if > using internet mail such as > Yahoo, Hotmail, etc. This information arrived > this morning from > Microsoft and Norton. Please send it to > everyone you know who accesses > the internet. > > You may receive an apparently harmless email > with a PowerPoint > 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 you > screen saying, "It is too > late now, your > life is no longer beautiful." Subsequently, > you will lose everything on > your PC and the person who sent it to you will > gain access to your > name, email and password. This is a new virus, > which started to > circulate on Saturday afternoon. AOL has > already confirmed the > severity, and the anti virus software is > incapable of destroying it. > > A hacker who calls himself "life owner" has > created the virus. > > PLEASE FORWARD THIS TO EVERYONE
I agree with Dibs (hell, I must be ailing for something !! ), I'd sooner somebody give me the heads up as I don't always have time to check things out, unless you want to keep us all abreast of things Paul, in which excellent
All you do is type what you are looking for in the address bar of Internet Explorer. In this instance you type "Life is Beautiful.pps" It brings up links to Norton site and Mcafee etc. Not exactly hard to do. The whole point of hoax viruses is that they make people worry for no reason and increace email traffic. The very fact that it was posted up here means that it has done what the writer intended it to do!!