[bookport] Re: OT: New virus warning!
- From: "Bruce Toews" <dogriver@xxxxxxxx>
- To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 09:21:40 -0500
This is a very old hoax and is precisely the reason most mailing lists
ask that virus warnings not be sent out to these lists. Again, this is a
hoax, it is not real. This hoax has been floating around for years.
Bruce
On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 09:18:37 -0500, "Mark Lee" <lee.mark@xxxxxxxxx>
said:
> Hello, everyone. I usually don't post off-topic things to this list, but
> I thought this was important enough for me to do so. If you guys have
> seen this before, I apologize.
>
> Mark Lee
>
> VERY IMPORTANT WARNING
>
> 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, you 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 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 EMAIL TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS and ask them to PASS
> IT ON IMMEDIATELY.
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