Subject: I M P O R T A N T W A R N I NG ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
CONFIRMED BY SNOPES!!!
You may receive an apparently harmless e-mail 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, computer stored, personal data.
This is a new virus which started to circulate on last Saturday after-noon. AOL has confirmed the severity and the anti-virus software's are not capable of destroying it.
The virus has been created by a hacker who calls himself "life owner".
SEND A COPY OF THIS E-MAIL TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS.
THIS HAS BEEN CONFIRMED BY SNOPES.
2007-04-23 04:08:34 · 10 answers · asked by marnefirstinfantry 5 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
Well, I do the research myself - but this one you explain about is a really, really old one.
2007-04-23 04:11:21 · answer #1 · answered by Lydia 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The e-mail itself is the "virus", so to speak. It doesn't infect your computer, it infects your mind! It takes away valuable time from your workday, making you worry and panic, NOT TO MENTION clogging up e-mail if you actually think of forwarding all this to all your friends and such! To imagine, you just spammed all your friends just because an email told you to do so! Imagine that!
If you have a proper antivirus setup and running, and properly updated, ANd you don't click on attachments without knowing its source and check its extensions carefully, then there is nothing to worry about.
As for whoever has verified this... Heck, I could tell you that Microsoft has verified my report! I can even tell you that the Department of Homeland Security has verified this. Ha! That doesn't mean you have to believe me!
So NEVER spread ANY sort of e-mail that begs you to send it to all your friends. It doesn't matter if it's true or not. If your friends have proper antivirus and all that, they would already be protected. And if they don't, it's likely your warning will be too late any way.
2007-04-23 11:18:38 · answer #2 · answered by Kasey C 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
In general, any e-mails that ask you to "forward this to all your friends" is a hoax.
Second, just because the message says it was confirmed by Snopes doesn't mean it actually was. Things like this are easily verified or proven to be a hoax just by searching Snopes yourself.
As a rule, I never forward these things along unless they are true. So far, I've not found a true one.
2007-04-23 11:18:25 · answer #3 · answered by JOhn M 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I would first: personally check that it is valid with an internet search. Secondly I would delete it and not send it to others as this constitutes a virus in itself.
2007-04-23 11:12:49 · answer #4 · answered by Velouria 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I try to be on the safe side about stuff like this. More time than not they are harmless but nothing wrong with a little caution
2007-04-23 11:21:43 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is just a hoax that has been around since 2002. For more info go to this site:
http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/life.asp
2007-04-23 11:15:06 · answer #6 · answered by John G 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
well most of that can be true.
If everything is deleted then what would they gain by getting access to your computer? How would they access it. TCP/IP stack is gone. No communication protocols left.
2007-04-23 11:12:26 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ha Ha Ha Ha ..we need smily faces in yahoo answeres now ...lol
2007-05-01 09:17:18 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
chicken little said " the sky is falling"
same garbage
2007-04-23 11:12:52 · answer #9 · answered by rodjared 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They are usually B.S., but there is no harm in following them.
2007-04-23 11:12:45 · answer #10 · answered by scooter 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋