VERY IMPORTANT WARNING
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TRUE or NOT? Hoax? Real? Any confirmation?
Please Be Extremely Careful especially if using internet mail such as
Yahoo, Hot mail, 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, your 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 antivirus 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 -
Mayi.... can confirm on this?
Do tell us this is nothing you can't handle......
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i think i heard of this b4 its some virus email or something. heard about it very long ago though
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Originally posted by :Mayi.... can confirm on this?
Do tell us this is nothing you can't handle...... -
Out-dated news...
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Received it yesterday. There is no attachments of any sort. So it's just our regular spamming.
However, do pay attention if there's any attachment. Nowadays virus creators are getting creative. Knowing that most attachments will get filtered other than common attachments like Word and PowerPoint, they have started using such documents to spread viruses. -
can antivirus detect virus embedded in msoffice documents?Originally posted by ndmmxiaomayi:Received it yesterday. There is no attachments of any sort. So it's just our regular spamming.
However, do pay attention if there's any attachment. Nowadays virus creators are getting creative. Knowing that most attachments will get filtered other than common attachments like Word and PowerPoint, they have started using such documents to spread viruses. -
ha..who going to click one
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i tot hotmail got scanning one?
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Some antivirus can.Originally posted by thoreldan:can antivirus detect virus embedded in msoffice documents?
If in doubt, don't open them. -
Yes, but new, undetected viruses will always go through the scanner. As long as it's not detected by antivirus programs, it will go through as clean. A better way will be to use multiple scanners.Originally posted by Pion:i tot hotmail got scanning one?
If you suspect that it's a virus file, upload it to here:
http://virusscan.jotti.org/ or http://www.virustotal.com/
If some scanners return bad results, then don't open it.
If the results say something heuristics, open with care. -
to hell with ppl who create virus!
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I think I also received some email like this...
It claimed that I did some survey and blah blah....I check the sender of the email, some unkown one...straightaway I press 'Report Spam'! -
Eh...Unlikely cause when you open email it wont auto download to your com and unlikely they will delete all your computer files...Hmm where did you get this information from?Originally posted by AndrewPKYap:TRUE or NOT? Hoax? Real? Any confirmation? -
anyway since I received that email, there was no report of anything happening and so i am inclined to think that it was a hoax.
an interesting note.
Last night BBC was talking about virus creators and hackers and how they have changed from school-boys bravado to sophisticated tools of the criminal underground.
If you are attacked by a virus, the chances are, you will not know! -
IF it was true, why muz it be chained, and there is no news about this?
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i dun open attatchment from ppl i dun know
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At the rate new viruses are created, the chances of you knowing is getting lower, unless it's done by some script kiddie.Originally posted by AndrewPKYap:anyway since I received that email, there was no report of anything happening and so i am inclined to think that it was a hoax.
an interesting note.
Last night BBC was talking about virus creators and hackers and how they have changed from school-boys bravado to sophisticated tools of the criminal underground.
If you are attacked by a virus, the chances are, you will not know!