I don't know how serious it is so don't shoot the messanger

{HIGH PRIORITY},

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 from Microsoft and Norton.
Please send it to everybody you know who accesses the Internet.
You may receive an apparently harmless email with a PowerPoint presentation "Life is beautiful. pps".
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 gain access to your name, e-mail and password.
This is a new virus which started to circulate on Saturday afternoon.
WE NEED TO DO EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO STOP THIS VIRUS.
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 MAKE A COPY OF THIS EMAIL TO ALL
YOUR FRIENDS and PASS IT ON IMMEDIATELY PLEASE

 

HOAX

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/ven...iful.hoax.html

 

Cool cheers Ranj

 

As Ranj said, saw this about a year ago...wind up

Cheers tho!!

 

sad feckers, they need to get a life instead of dreaming bollox up like that

 

glad it is a hoax to be honest then. I got sen this email yesterday nd sent it on to peeps. Oh well .

 

anything that says "it will totally destroy your pc" or anything along those lines is always a good sign its a hoax, as is anything that claims it was infomation that "came from microsoft" but doesnt have a link back to the information on the microsoft website, its just them trying to look credible.

Modern viruses and malitious code arent what they used to be, years and years ago with the old screen on computers it was actually possible to explode the screen in front of the user with the right code (just keep firing at one pixel in the corner until it over-heated) far more exciting than corrupting a few "word" files.

 

Twats Oh well, keeps me emplyed in the IT trade

 

Told ya peeps before

https://passionford.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=106013