NEW VIRUS ALERT... .HOAX

15 Nov 2006

VERY IMPORTANT WARNING
Please Be Extremely Careful especially if using internet mail such as , , AOL and so on (or any other email).
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 email 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 antivirus software's are not capable of destroying it.
The virus has been created by a hacker who calls himself "life owner."
PLEASE SEND A COPY OF THIS EMAIL TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS and ask them to
PASS IT ON IMMEDIATELY.
Print this out and keep it by your computer to REMIND YOU.
This virus will KILL everything in your computer.

15 Nov 2006

Have a read of this:

And then read this:

:P

15 Nov 2006

Oh, and stop spamming the site with this hoax message! I have deleted your other THREE identical posts.
It only took me 20 seconds to find the hoax warnings from software manufacturers - something YOU could have done so easily.
:x

15 Nov 2006

SHIT....SHIT...SHIT...
It came to me from such a good source that I aotomatically believed it was genuine.
I will now send your links to that source.
Thanks.... and feeling somewhat foolish

15 Nov 2006

Thanks Jags for the deletes.
My intentions were honourable to warn ereryone, IT WAS NOT SPAM !!!!!!!!.

15 Nov 2006

virus? whats a virus? i dont know cos i use oh and i dont think this link could be classed as spam because linux is open source and non-profit making software.

15 Nov 2006

Quote by lookmeup99
Thanks Jags for the deletes.
My intentions were honourable to warn ereryone, IT WAS NOT SPAM !!!!!!!!.

Whilst I salute your intentions, which were honourable, posting the identical thread in all four forums is considered spamming the site. People can read it in the Cafe. However, it's always best to do a quick google/any-other-search-engine of it first before posting it everywhere.
:P

15 Nov 2006

:shock:

15 Nov 2006

Unfortunately some people seem to discard common sense out of the window when online.....
Ho hum

The other site I point people at when I get these sorts of thing is here:

16 Nov 2006

Quote by R n M
These emails can be as destructive as a virus. So many people forwarding them to all their contacts and the servers get clogged up leading to breakdowns and such like.

That is exactly the point of the hoaxes, R n M. The idea is to have the hoax replicate in a viral fashion. Person A sends it to 10 friends, those 10 people send it to another 10 each - so in just two generations this scenario gives 111 copies of the viral e-mail clogging up mail accounts.