[bookport] Re: OT: New virus warning!
- From: "lana" <lana5@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 11:10:41 -0600
better safe than sorry, but thanks to those who saw through it.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Lee" <lee.mark@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 9:07 AM
Subject: [bookport] Re: OT: New virus warning!
> I received it from a good friend of mine and thought it was legitimate.
My
> apologies.
>
> Mark Lee
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bruce Toews" <dogriver@xxxxxxxx>
> To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 9:21 AM
> Subject: [bookport] Re: OT: New virus warning!
>
>
> > 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.
> >
> > --
> > Bruce Toews
> > E-mail and MSN/Windows Messenger: dogriver@xxxxxxxx
> > Website: http://www.ogts.net
> > Radio Show and Podcast: http://www.totw.net
> > Info on the Best TV Show of All Time: http://www.cornergas.com
> >
> >
>
>
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