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Aloone_Jonez:
My sister received this email:

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From: Lakeland Communications - Steven Brady [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 17 November 2005 14:19
To: Abby Mobile
Subject: FW: NOT A JOKE - PLEASE OPEN A.S.A.P.

VERY IMPORTANT WARNING
This is not a joke!
Please Be Extremely Careful especially if 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 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
 
Regards,

 
Steven J Brady
Managing Director
Lakeland Communications Limited
Blackhall Yard
Kendal
Cumbria
LA9 4LU
 
t:   0870 990 7973
f:   0871 433 1456
m: 0797 344 8245
e: [email protected]
w: http://www.lakeland-communications.co.uk


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This won't affect me anyway because I don't have Power Point and the normal usesr doesn't have enough privileges to remove any system (or anyone else's) files so it's a user area wipe at the worst.

Anyway, is this a hoax or is it a real threat?

piratePenguin:
All I could find on it from Google News: http://www.irishdev.com/NewsArticle.aspx?id=1358

cymon:
It's real. I got a fake FBI email today, it said to answer questions but the file with the questions on it was a virus. Luckily Hotmail scans everything for virii, and I don't run windows.

H_TeXMeX_H:
It looks real to me ... but I don't care I run Linux :D

Aloone_Jonez:

--- Quote from: piratePenguin ---All I could find on it from Google News: http://www.irishdev.com/NewsArticle.aspx?id=1358
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Thanks piratePenguin, I agree it is bullshit, I don't see how a virus can delete all your files even on an insecure Windows machine sice the file locking system will prevent this.

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