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effjayel
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since 2007-09-30
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At the Crossroads of Infinity

0 posted 2008-02-22 05:19 PM



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Please Be Extremely Careful
especially if 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 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

© Copyright 2008 John Lawrence - All Rights Reserved
Margherita
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since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236
Eternity
1 posted 2008-02-22 05:24 PM


You send shivers through my bones with this one! Keeping my eyes open to detect the deathly threats IN TIME ...


thank you
Margherita

effjayel
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since 2007-09-30
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At the Crossroads of Infinity
2 posted 2008-02-22 05:30 PM


I realise there are sad people out there who have fun sending this stuff out however, this was sent to me 10 minutes ago by a friend whom I trust & as such, consider it serious enough an issue to post here...forewarned is fore armed....

John

Artic Wind
Member Rara Avis
since 2007-09-16
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Realm of Supernatural
3 posted 2008-02-22 05:48 PM


Sounds Creepy!!!!

Who ever did that is very bad!

ARCTIC WIND

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577
displaced
4 posted 2008-02-22 06:01 PM


thanks for the heads up John

this might be moved to Announcements in the Discussion forum though

I agree it's an important issue!

SEA
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with you
5 posted 2008-02-22 06:03 PM


yes, it might get moved there but be sure it will stay UP so folks can see it...

I emailed the warning to my family...thanks for letting us know.

Ron
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since 1999-05-19
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6 posted 2008-02-22 06:44 PM


quote:
If you receive it DO NOT OPEN THE ANY FILE UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES ...


This wasn't new five years ago, and it won't be new five years hence. Attachments are potentially dangerous.

And, yea, the thread will be moved to a discussion forum, though I'll leave a closed copy here for a while so everyone can find it.

/pip/Forum3/HTML/004435.html



Parker
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since 2000-01-06
Posts 3129
ON
7 posted 2008-02-22 06:50 PM


This warning is being passed around but its just a hoax. The "Life is beautiful" power point presentation is not a virus its just what it is.
Whenever you get these warning emails always goto the virus software sites to see what they are saying.... ie.. http://www.symantec.com/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid=2002-011511-0444-99&tabid=2
or http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/life.asp
or at Mcfee... http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp?id=description&virus_k=99307

The real purpose of these warning is to just propagate an email chain letter for no reason, and so it gets sent around with everyone panicing for no reason and just clogging up the internet main bandwidth.

Its simple to do a search on these warning in google and you will see all the sites with the correct info.

So stop the maddness and don't forward this warning on....

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