http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/life.is.beautiful.hoax.html
You can be 99% sure any email that contains a description of a virus and says something to the effect of "send this to all your friends" is a hoax.
At 06:58 PM 3/26/2003, Marilyn wrote:
----- Original Message ----------Original Message-----
From: Marilyn Williams
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 11:03 AM
Subject: FW: Virus Alert
From: Susan Ma
Sent: March 26, 2003 10:46 AM
To: _DEPT - Specialty Sales
Subject: FW: Virus Alert
-----Original Message-----
From: Debra Wheeler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: March 26, 2003 10:15 AM
To: Bonnie Wheeler; Cindy Groot; Elizabeth Briggs; FEDMET TUBULARS; FEDMET TUBULARS; FEDMET TUBULARS; FEDMET TUBULARS; Kaela Scott; Kelsey Scott; Leeanne Conrad; Stella Bergen; Susan Ma; Suzanne Briggs; Tannis Armstrong
Subject: Virus Alert
Subject: WARNING
Please Be Extremely Careful Especially if using internet mail
Such as Yahoo, Hotmail 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 Power Point presentation Lifeisbeautiful.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 will 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 Softs are not capable of destroying it. The virus has been created by a hacker who calls himself "life owner".
MAIL A COPY OF THIS EMAIL TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS
_______________________
Scott MacLean
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
ICQ: 9184011
http://www.nerosoft.com
