I M P O R T A N T
W A R N I NG ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
Anyone-using Internet mail such as Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL and so on.
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 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 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 anti virus software's are not capable of destroying it.
The virus has been created by a hacker who calls himself 'life owner.'
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PLEASE SEND A COPY OF THIS E-MAIL TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS, and ask them to PASS IT ON IMMEDIATELY!
2007-10-18 07:02:05 · 16 answers · asked by golden 6 in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
I received this as an email this morning i just posted it incase it helped others as i don't live on my pc 24/7/365 i don't look on every single website
2007-10-18 07:19:29 · update #1
thanks for your information i have only been on the internet since last year and as from today i wont try and help excuse me
2007-10-18 07:28:34 · update #2
Thank you so far I have not got it. I hope they trace this guy and that he is busted.
2007-10-18 07:14:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Life is Beautiful virus was a hoax that spread through the Internet around January 2002. It told of a virus attached to an e-mail in a Microsoft PowerPoint file that was supposedly called Life is beautiful.pps. The message was unconfirmed and later classified as a hoax.
An example of what an email said can be found here.
[edit] Claims
On the Symantec website, the hoaxes description continues to say that the virus was made by a person who is fighting Microsoft in court.
[edit] Email Message Claim
The claims are that the following email message was sent out:
URGENT! VIRUS!
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 PowerPoint presentation called "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 will gain access to your name, email and password. This is a new virus which started to circulate on Saturday afternoon. WE NEED TO DO EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO STOP THIS VIRUS. UOL has already confirmed its dangerousness, and the antivirus Softs are not capable of destroying it. The virus has been created by a hacker who calls himself "life owner", and who aims to destroying domestic PCs and who also fights Microsoft in court! That’s why it comes disguised with extension pps. He fights in court for the Windows-XP patent.
MAKE A COPY OF THIS EMAIL TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS.
Subsequently, this was never a real virus.
2007-10-18 07:06:51 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 1⤋
Total bullsh*t, posting an old worn-out myth (yes, it is bogus, bullstuff, not real), then pull then chain-letter sh*t at the end.
If Yahoo paid any attention, I'd report this. Of course I'll probably be the one who gets violated for the *meanness* of my answer.
Make a copy of THIS and send it to ten of your friends.
2007-10-18 07:17:57 · answer #3 · answered by heebus_jeebus 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not too familiar with Power Point but if it comes as an attachment from a source I don't know I wont open it anyway
2007-10-18 07:06:41 · answer #4 · answered by Maid Angela 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you open an anonymous email then you only have yourself to blame.
2007-10-18 07:10:54 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know how you would know and noone else does. It should be on the News or something like that.
2007-10-18 07:06:29 · answer #6 · answered by Patricia Payne 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is a hoax.
http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/life.asp
2007-10-18 07:06:10 · answer #7 · answered by Druidus 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋
anyone that opens anonymous attachments deserves a virus imo ..
2007-10-18 07:04:32 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
you have learnt the hard way DO NOT OPEN ANY EMAILS YOU DON`T KNOW.
2007-10-18 07:07:39 · answer #9 · answered by HaSiCiT Bust A Tie A1 TieBusters 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Thanks a lot for informing me and the others about this e-mail/virus.You already saved a lot of people's PC.
2007-10-18 07:06:47 · answer #10 · answered by el barrio hurricanes 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋