VIRUS WARNING

[pj748r]

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

[SSTU]

sounds bad

[rockhopper]

Fake virus I'm afraid. I do wish people would check before posting alerts like this.


http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp?id=description&virus_k=99307

[Dibble]

Hey, not everyones an IT guru ... he's just trying to help .... 30 seconds spent for you reading it may be 2 hours spared for someone else ....

[muttsnuts]

I agree with Dibs (hell, I must be ailing for something !! :o ), 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 :sing: :roll: :sing:

[Iconic944ss]

Gotta agree with Paul on this one......the Symantec virus site is easy to use and has always been able to tell me if a virus is real or a hoax:

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/

If you were the first to find out about a Ducati factory recall for a bike - would you check it out b4 putting it on the site....

I hope so............:D

Regards - Frank

[rockhopper]

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!!

[Mark853]

Thank's for the explanation rockhopper but pj748r was only trying to help and i thank him for that.

I hear what you are saying but there was no need to slam the guy down!

[yorkshire pud]

better safe than sorry