Virus Warning Hoax

[Sparky]

This is a Hoax Email I just received and can cause almost as much disruption and more waste of bandwidth as real viruses by encouraging everyone to forward the email to everyone they know (which acts like a chain letter)

Please break the chain by not forwarding it.

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

My thanks to MID and Ros

[MID]

Hoax, I have had this before, rechecked and it is on the symantec site

www.symantec.com/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid=2002-011511-0444-99&tabid=2

[Sparky]

Thanks Mid and Ros for your prompt warning and have altered the first post accordingly :)

Graham

[Chris_Sav]

Sadly, almost everyone of these is a hoax so that the genuine get lost.

Any stories that you receive that request you to pass them on to as many friends as possible are almost invariably hoaxes, whether it's a virus warning or some poor dying child that's collecting email addresses, there are many varieties. do not pass them on unless you are certain, it just makes you look a plonker.

Never ever open an attachment in any email you do not have full confidence and knowledge of the sender.

Sav.