copy and paste from proboards

I haven't seen this around so I thought I'd post it as a warning to all you Proboarders Vforums:

I M P O R T A N T W A R N I NG ! ! ! ! ! Confirmed by Snopes

I only know what this says. May or may not be but why take a chance?

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 EVERY THING 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". PLEASE SEND A COPY OF THIS E-MAIL TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS, And ask them to PASS IT ON IMMEDIATELY!

THIS HAS BEEN CONFIRMED BY SNOPES!

I never believe any of these things... and I just never open any attachments I get.. I also get AVG to scan all attachments!

Thanks for the heads up though!

Yep your welcome, I never open up attachment neither. Though I have herd things about this.

There's excessive use of Capitals in there... >.<

It's a fake. Snopes is only a site for Urban legends

As always, keep vigilant against all unsolicited emails, especially ones with attatchments but this one is a fake

Unless I know the sender, then any email I get tends to go straight into the spam folder, especially if there's any attachments.

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

Posted By XeroCint on 10th Jan 08 at 10:18pm

 

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

Says its a hoax. . .

See this was posted on an FF forum I Role-Play on, and figured to post it, but... i dont think its a hoax, as My friends $3,400 Computer, got totally wiped out, when he opened the same email. Just not long before I posted this. His CPU was fast, Windows Vista Ultimate, A whole bunch of Gaming Drivers, Graphics drivers, His computer looked like HD. (Maby it was... Im not sure ).

EDIT: but everything was gone, he could not even turn on the computer, I tried to access his email, and it said it was the wrong password, and He told me from word to word what it is, he even tried at my house, and it did not work.

I highly doubt that it was that particular email - if he's silly enough to open an unsolicited email from an unknown sender, then gawd knows what he had running, or any other emails that might have caused the problem

Why do people bother to send these email forwards anymore anyway?? they're so passe.

Darkmage, you forgot to add that if you don't forward this message to 10 people in 5 minutes; the girl from The Ring will kill you in your sleep tonight.

These things are usually hoaxes; and even if anti-virus software can't stop it, they can at least recognize it and stop your computer from opening it in the first place.

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Reason number 36 why I use linux: I never even bother opening attachments from anyone anymore. If you're someone who would send me an attachment in the first place, you'd know I detest the things, and that anything you send me would either be all text, or would require effort on my part to view, effort you know I won't take.

As a result, I just set my email to forward anything with an attachment into the spam folder. xD

~Artemis

Bah, attachments? People still open these things?
I gave up years ago. They require me downloading something which wastes precious seconds. So I just don't download them, even if they're from someone I know.