vForums Support :: General :: General :: Extremely important!!!! must read! - View Topic Topic Rating: Printable View This topic was locked 20th Dec 09 at 6:53am by ashkir Nick Very Senior Member Posts: 3,012 Status: Offline Gender: Male Location: vForums Age: 34 Joined:   Reputation: 62%   pmwww Extremely important!!!! must read! (10th Jan 08 at 8:57pm UTC) 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! Back to Top - Link to Post - Last edit:   by Michael Michael Moderator Recoding the future Posts: 4,043 Status: Offline Gender: Male Location: UK Joined:   Additional Groups: Coding Team Reputation: 58%   pmtwittervForum Re: Extremely important!!!! must read! (10th Jan 08 at 9:00pm UTC) 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! Back to Top - Link to Post Nick Very Senior Member Posts: 3,012 Status: Offline Gender: Male Location: vForums Age: 34 Joined:   Reputation: 62%   pmwww Re: Extremely important!!!! must read! (10th Jan 08 at 9:02pm UTC) Yep your welcome, I never open up attachment neither. Though I have herd things about this. Back to Top - Link to Post Michael Moderator Recoding the future Posts: 4,043 Status: Offline Gender: Male Location: UK Joined:   Additional Groups: Coding Team Reputation: 58%   pmtwittervForum Re: Extremely important!!!! must read! (10th Jan 08 at 9:06pm UTC) There's excessive use of Capitals in there... >.< Back to Top - Link to Post Graham Support Administrator Posts: 1,642 Status: Offline Gender: Male Location: Sussex, UK Age: 39 Joined:   Additional Groups: Support Team Reputation: 57%   pmwww Re: Extremely important!!!! must read! (10th Jan 08 at 9:15pm UTC) 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 Back to Top - Link to Post Ross Administrator Posts: 3,709 Status: Offline Gender: Male Age: 8 1⁄1 Joined:   Additional Groups: Support Team Reputation: 45%   pmwwwtwittergtalkvForum Re: Extremely important!!!! must read! (10th Jan 08 at 10:17pm UTC) Unless I know the sender, then any email I get tends to go straight into the spam folder, especially if there's any attachments. Back to Top - Link to Post XeroCint Senior Member Posts: 553 Status: Offline Gender: Male Location: Google Server Streams Age: 31 Joined:   Reputation: 0%   pmmsnyahooaim Re: Extremely important!!!! must read! (10th Jan 08 at 10:18pm UTC) GOOGLEGOOGLEGOOGLE http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/life.asp Back to Top - Link to Post Guides, contests, videos, graphics, and just plain fun... The Uber Googlers has it all gray929 Junior Member Posts: 129 Status: Offline Age: 32 Joined:   Reputation: 2%   pm Re: Extremely important!!!! must read! (10th Jan 08 at 11:09pm UTC) Posted By XeroCint on 10th Jan 08 at 10:18pm   GOOGLEGOOGLEGOOGLE http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/life.asp Says its a hoax. . . Back to Top - Link to Post Need a Sig? Nick Very Senior Member Posts: 3,012 Status: Offline Gender: Male Location: vForums Age: 34 Joined:   Reputation: 62%   pmwww Re: Extremely important!!!! must read! (11th Jan 08 at 8:58pm UTC) 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. Back to Top - Link to Post - Last edit:   by Nick Graham Support Administrator Posts: 1,642 Status: Offline Gender: Male Location: Sussex, UK Age: 39 Joined:   Additional Groups: Support Team Reputation: 57%   pmwww Re: Extremely important!!!! must read! (12th Jan 08 at 1:34am UTC) 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 Back to Top - Link to Post slip Moderator Posts: 760 Status: Offline Gender: Male Location: India Joined:   Additional Groups: Design Team Reputation: 31%   pmmsn Re: Extremely important!!!! must read! (12th Jan 08 at 5:38pm UTC) Why do people bother to send these email forwards anymore anyway?? they're so passe. Back to Top - Link to Post Marc vChat Developer I <3 Rossy Posts: 3,388 Status: Offline Gender: Male Location: Ontario, Canada Age: 32 Joined:   Additional Groups: Coding Team Reputation: 40%   pmwww Re: Extremely important!!!! must read! (12th Jan 08 at 6:09pm UTC) 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. Back to Top - Link to Post - Last edit:   by Marc rroll.to— Shorten a link, rickroll your friends. Paddy Full Member Insane Clown Posts: 288 Status: Offline Gender: Male Location: Buffalo, New York Age: 34 Joined:   Reputation: 7%   pmwwwtwitterskypeaimgtalk Re: Extremely important!!!! must read! (14th Jan 08 at 9:55pm UTC) ... 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 Back to Top - Link to Post Samus Junior Member Posts: 56 Status: Offline Gender: Male Location: Australia Joined:   Reputation: 0%   pmmsnicq Re: Extremely important!!!! must read! (16th Jan 08 at 5:42am UTC) 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. Back to Top - Link to Post   Printable View Choose SkinOriginalslip.wr.blu

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