Life Owner Virus

[eddiemoth]

Folks,
I received this from our friend Glen and I thought everybody should be aware of it.

> 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
> &n bsp; 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 YO UR 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".
>

[basic]

http://www.symantec.com/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid=2002-011511-0444-99&tabid=2 it's a hoax, and an old one at that. been around for several years now.

[eddiemoth]

Thanks basic for the info. It is now hard to know which is which is not any more.

[basic]

sadly that's too true. there are too many computer viruses and stuff out there going around to know what to believe and what not to. it's sad that some people play on that and start things like this, which really don't do anything but add junk email and cause people to get worried when there's no need.