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[Arie van Schuttterhoef]

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Life is beautiful Hoax
Reported on: January 15, 2002
Last Updated on: September 17, 2002 08:18:39 PM


Symantec Security Response encourages you to ignore any messages
regarding this hoax. It is harmless and is intended only to cause
unwarranted concern.
Type: Hoax

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/refa.html#hoax
Types of threat
Hoax
Usually an email that gets mailed in chain letter fashion describing some
devastating, highly unlikely type of virus. Hoaxes are detectable as having
no file attachment, no reference to a third party who can validate the claim,
and by the general tone of the message.


This hoax was first circulated in Portuguese. English, French, Italian and
German versions
have also been recorded.
English
URGENT!  VIRUS!
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 PowerPoint presentation called "Life is
beautiful.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,
email and password. This is a new virus which started to
circulate on Saturday afternoon. WE NEED TO DO EVERYTHING
POSSIBLE TO STOP THIS VIRUS. UOL has already confirmed its
dangerousness, and the antivirus Softs are not capable of
destroying it. The virus has been created by a hacker who
calls himself "life owner", and who aims to destroying
domestic PCs and who also fights Microsoft in court! That's
why it comes disguised with extension pps. He fights in
court for the Windows-XP patent.
MAKE A COPY OF THIS EMAIL TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS.
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