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Jim
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Posted: Wed Mar 26th, 2008 09:44 pm |
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Subject: E X T R E M E L Y I M P O R T A N T!
Subject: 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 a seemingly harmless e-mail 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.' 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 E-MAIL TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS, And
Ask them to PASS IT ON IMMEDIATELY!
THIS HAS BEEN CONFIRMED BY SNOPES ALSO
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glen
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Posted: Thu Mar 27th, 2008 04:51 pm |
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http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/life.asp
Çheck this out....which unfortunately did not do before I sent a massive email.
Last edited on Thu Mar 27th, 2008 04:56 pm by glen
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Island Woman MJ
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Posted: Thu Mar 27th, 2008 07:39 pm |
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This is the new addition to the newest versions of hoax mail...that it has been checked out by snopes. So people don't GO to snopes to check it! Works pretty well, this is the third one I've seen like this.
So if you read, checked out by snopes...treat it the same way you would treat someone saying "Trust me!"
Snopes.com is awesome! They are on emails so fast that are going around, everything from Missing Children, dying children, fake pictures, political stuff, computer stuff. Whether it's true, false or a mix of both, they do an incredible job of keeping on top of the weird, wild world of emails.
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Jim
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Posted: Thu Mar 27th, 2008 08:19 pm |
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Well well, funny this came from Joe a Culebra friend
who is usually on top of things/ This reminds of the
Moon comes closer to Earth "No one alive today will
see it again in their lifetime" which I got here only
to find it was off by two years, another hoax. Thanks
for the snopes link, but it didn;t wirk. I did get to
their site and it really is helpful. That link is
http://www.snopes.com/info/search/search.asp
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admin
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Posted: Thu Mar 27th, 2008 11:39 pm |
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I have edited this name of this topic so people don't get all freaked out on a virus alert.
Hopefully this will get the word out to those that don't use Snopes.com on a regular basis that it solves a lot of second guessing and mass e-mails.
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