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March 20th, 2003, 09:15 AM
#1
Member
New Virus Alert: Life is Beautiful
Hi buddies
One of the friends of mine forwarded the below message. Its is new virus alert.
IMPORTANT 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 "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, e-mail and password. This is a new virus which started tocirculate 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".
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March 20th, 2003, 11:02 AM
#2
MAte it seems to be a hoax..
Check these out..
Symantec
or
Hoaxinfo.com
Keep the home page of Hoaxinfo bookmarked for the next such message..
Now I am not sure but I think there may be a tutorial on just this subject..
Cheers
"Consumer technology now exceeds the average persons ability to comprehend how to use it..give up hope of them being able to understand how it works." - Me http://www.cybercrypt.co.nr
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March 20th, 2003, 05:42 PM
#3
You can usually assume most of the "random" forwards from people are actually hoax's. Especially you notice how it's written, very general. Like "Saturday", well if a virus/worm/whatever came out usually a date is given. Plus you can tell, because all those hoax emails are starting to sound all the same.
There have been a few posts I've seen on AO where people have said that such and such a website emailed me this. I don't remember these off the top of my head, but I think there are some sites that will send people who are on a mailing list updated information on new viruses found (a thought for AO maybe? heheh). But those emails have structure, it looks like someone professional wrote it, not like a 2 year old who doesn't even understand how to use different paragraphs.
A word to the wise, do like what Und3ertak3r said and check out a hoax informational website before assuming that your email is "big news".
[shadow]There is no right and wrong, only fun and boring...
Formatting my server because someone hacked into it sounds pretty boring to me...
That\'s why it\'s all about AntiOnline.com![/shadow]
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March 20th, 2003, 08:34 PM
#4
it helps to read and research before assuming anything!
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March 21st, 2003, 02:51 PM
#5
Junior Member
I have to admit, whenever I see a line like
...Please send it to everybody you know who accesses the Internet....
I groan
[glowpurple]$ _[/glowpurple]
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March 21st, 2003, 07:48 PM
#6
Besides, isn't .pps is a M$ power point presentation?
http://www.library.mcgill.ca/edrs/se...ensions.html#P
Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn't have what it takes"; They will say, "Women don't have what it takes".
Clare Boothe Luce
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March 21st, 2003, 08:01 PM
#7
Yes that's true. But in all honestly who knows what all virus makers will be using anymore. I mean with javascript viruses and such, maybe they could possibly set it up to run a small little script whenever you ran the power point file? Or something to that affect. But come on, it's a joke to begin with so maybe they were doing that just to be funny! ;-) Good point to point out though techtech.
[shadow]There is no right and wrong, only fun and boring...
Formatting my server because someone hacked into it sounds pretty boring to me...
That\'s why it\'s all about AntiOnline.com![/shadow]
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March 21st, 2003, 10:46 PM
#8
Junior Member
Uncanny 'techtech' and 'AciDriveHB' should mention javascript and powerpoint files. I've found through bitter experience that powerpoint files may contain embedded .js files which seem to control the animation and such. I'm not 100% on this, but having had a good ganda through the logs on my network's email AV software this seems to be the case...
This makes blocking scripts, but allowing valid work files through a nightmare.
Of course, I'll happily subscribe to the 'who needs powerpoint anyway' argument... I'd rather presentation were done in PDF myself.
[glowpurple]$ _[/glowpurple]
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April 1st, 2003, 04:55 PM
#9
Junior Member
Insteresting! Thanks, Und3ertak3r. It got a forward email from my friend with "Life is beautiful". IT sounds like it is a msg from some big reliable corp.
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April 1st, 2003, 06:41 PM
#10
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