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

Now what you say may be correct and for that reason, I would now not open.

But this so called email outlining the virus began in January 2002 and has been denied by both Microsoft and Norton on numerous occassions.

And I ensured I was correct before posting this reply as the following shows

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_is_be ... virus_hoax

http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/life.asp

http://www.symantec.com/security_respon ... 11-0444-99

All state a HOAX though if this is a new version then thank you for the information. But if you read your so called email it virtually word for word on the wikipedia one from over 6 years ago.

not worth the risk of opening though is it just in case

the lad who sent me it got it yesterday so i know nothing other than that post

it might be a hoax

Has anybody considered the slight possibility that this might be a hoax?

Sounds like a hoax

Just had an e - mail saying it might be a hoax.

From hoaxer@gotyer.com

So it could be a hoax then