Warning - Pl read to know about new email danger.

[Guest guest]

VERY IMPORTANT WARNING

 

This is not a joke!

 

Please Be Extremely Careful especially if using internet mail such as

 

, 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 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.

 

 

 

" Our ideal is not the spirituality that withdraws from life but the conquest

of life by the power of the spirit. " - Aurobindo.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bring words and photos together (easily) with

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[Guest guest]

Origins: This warning about a Microsoft PowerPoint file named " Life is

Beautiful " carrying a a computer-destroying virus is a hoax, one that has been

with us since at least January 2002. It originally circulated in Portuguese but

was later translated into English and a host of other languages.

 

Although this particular example is a hoax, PowerPoint presentations can contain

viruses, so prudent computer users should always check downloaded or e-mailed

PowerPoint presentations (and all other non-text attachments) before opening

them.

 

In September 2002 this hoax was circulated anew as " Everything is Beautiful, "

and it popped up again in 2003 re-titled as " Life is Wonderful. "

 

Additional information: Life is Beautiful Hoax

(McAfee)

Life is Beautiful Hoax

(Symantec)

Last updated: 23 January 2005

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

If you check the hoax/urban legend site on the

Internet, snopes.com, you learn that the " Life is

Beautiful " virus is a hoax:

http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/life.asp

 

 

--- Jagannath Chatterjee <jagchat01 wrote:

 

> VERY IMPORTANT WARNING

>

> This is not a joke!

>

> Please Be Extremely Careful especially if using

> internet mail such as

>

> , 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 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.

>

>

>

> " Our ideal is not the spirituality that

> withdraws from life but the conquest of life by the

> power of the spirit. " - Aurobindo.

>

>

>

>

>

>

> Bring words and photos together (easily) with

> PhotoMail - it's free and works with your

> Mail.

>

> [Non-text portions of this message have been

> removed]

>

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Yes Kay, this has been pointed out to me by another friend as well. I

was scarred by the last virus attack and so reacted in haste to this

message. Sorry.

 

Jagannath.

 

, Kay Gore

<kayg23451> wrote:

>

> If you check the hoax/urban legend site on the

> Internet, snopes.com, you learn that the " Life is

> Beautiful " virus is a hoax:

> http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/life.asp

[Guest guest]

I never open attachments and I always check with

Snopes, but I sure do understand being hit by a virus.

I think that it has happened to everyone who is

connected to the Internet.

 

--- jagchat01 <jagchat01 wrote:

 

>

> Yes Kay, this has been pointed out to me by another

> friend as well. I

> was scarred by the last virus attack and so reacted

> in haste to this

> message. Sorry.

>

> Jagannath.

>

> ,

> Kay Gore

> <kayg23451> wrote:

> >

> > If you check the hoax/urban legend site on the

> > Internet, snopes.com, you learn that the " Life is

> > Beautiful " virus is a hoax:

> > http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/life.asp

>

>

>

>

>

>

>