BS: New virus? 2011.03.17

Subject: RE: BS: New virus? 2011.03.17
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 22 Mar 11 - 01:56 AM

I'll delete it. Thank you!
GfS

Subject: RE: BS: New virus? 2011.03.17
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 22 Mar 11 - 01:39 AM

ATTENTION!!

New FB Virus out!

Chairbuttitis.

It will glue your butt to your chair and you will be held captive for hours on end! No housework will get done, kids will go hungry, dogs whining to go out! You will also lose all connectivity to the outside world!

Please repost!!!

Subject: RE: BS: New virus? 2011.03.17
From: MMario
Date: 18 Mar 11 - 10:53 AM

Virtually any e-mail that tells you to send it to "everyone you know" will be a hoax.

Subject: RE: BS: New virus? 2011.03.17
From: Beer
Date: 18 Mar 11 - 09:46 AM

Thanks Arthur. I have passed on the site information to my friend.
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Subject: RE: BS: New virus? 2011.03.17
From: Arthur_itus
Date: 18 Mar 11 - 09:04 AM

LOL

This may help VT & Beer

http://www.vistax64.com/vista-mail/258334-spam-e-mails-being-sent-my-hotmail-account-all-my-contacts.html

Subject: RE: BS: New virus? 2011.03.17
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 18 Mar 11 - 08:54 AM

Irish Virus

Subject: RE: BS: New virus? 2011.03.17
From: Beer
Date: 18 Mar 11 - 07:59 AM

Same thing happening to me from a friend.
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Subject: RE: BS: New virus? 2011.03.17
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 18 Mar 11 - 05:21 AM

what I want to know, is how I am getting Canadian pharmacy emails sent to me via a couple of friends using Yahoo and Hotmail? No subject line, no text, just link to Canadian online pharmacy or some healthy living club.

I just delete them, but getting one to three every day now. The friends don;t know how it is happening either.

Subject: RE: BS: New virus? 2011.03.17
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 17 Mar 11 - 04:45 PM

Note: This warning is still valid though.

Although this particular example is a hoax, PowerPoint presentations can contain viruses, so prudent computer users should always check downloaded or e-mailed PowerPoint presentations (and all other non-text attachments) before opening them.   

(Some may think it is a clever thing to block the ability to copy text from a page, but you can still use the 'View Source' method to get to it!) :-P

And if opening any link in the message or if any program on the PC has a loophole that allows a harmful piece of code to be executed on the target machine to happen, then actually the basic warning in this hoax is still valid, but the whole point of these hoaxes is to cause the naive users to spread this stuff like wild fire, hopefully then causing people to not take real precautions due to 'information overload'.

The 'delete all content' CAN happen - in UNIX (Linux) there IS a simple basic command "rm -r / &" that will do that if you can force 'root privileges' (a virus or other attack CAN hack this, if a system is not 'secure'), there ARE ways to force this 'trick' in Windows too. Which is why the partly (insufficiently) educated can easily be conned into spreading the hoax.

Subject: RE: BS: New virus? 2011.03.17
From: gnu
Date: 17 Mar 11 - 04:11 PM

No worries mate. Better to be safe than fucked I always say.

Subject: RE: BS: New virus? 2011.03.17
From: Beer
Date: 17 Mar 11 - 04:01 PM

So am I Gnu.

Subject: RE: BS: New virus? 2011.03.17
From: gnu
Date: 17 Mar 11 - 03:32 PM

Yes Beer and Art... just got a PM from another buddy telling me so.

SORRY.

Subject: RE: BS: New virus? 2011.03.17
From: Arthur_itus
Date: 17 Mar 11 - 03:29 PM

Hewre we go again. It's hoax. Sending it on to otheer people is exactly what they want you to do.

Look at this link

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/life-is-beautiful-virus-hoax.html

And this from snopes
http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/lifeisbeautiful.asp

Stop beleiving what the email tells you and go and check the supposed virus out at the above sites.

Obviously make sure you have all the neccessary virus software and if you don't know or trust who sent you an e-mail or attachment, delete them immediately.

Do not forward them to other people.

I hope that helps.

Subject: RE: BS: New virus? 2011.03.17
From: Beer
Date: 17 Mar 11 - 03:28 PM

I have been informed that this could be a hoax Gnu.
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Subject: BS: New virus? 2011.03.17
From: gnu
Date: 17 Mar 11 - 03:16 PM

Just got an e...

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 an apparently harmless e-mail titled "Here you have it" If you open the 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 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.
                            http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/hereyouhave.asp