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Virus alert!!
sogster:
>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 access 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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Had this sent to me by several friends today!!
Sogster.
Wanderer:
Unfortunately it's the email messages that are the virus. The virus is a hoax and the damage is done by people sending the original message out to others in their address book.
It only does any damage by taking up bandwidth and has been doing the rounds since around 2002.
Ed
thermidorthelobster:
See http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/life.is.beautiful.hoax.html for details.
Please everybody, before you forward this type of thing on, spend 20 seconds on Google and see if it's a hoax...
Wanderer:
It is worth adding that .pps files can contain a virus.
Ed
Bob696:
and PowerPoint files are .ppt (I think :oops: )
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