Pay No Mind: Unimportant virus hoax

See link in gutty's post.


Hey guys, just a quick warning about an email virus that started circulating on Saturday.

If you get a seemingly harmless email with a Powerpoint presentation attached called 'Life is Beautiful.ppt', DO NOT OPEN IT, DELETE IT IMMEDIATELY.

If you do open this presentation, everything on your computer will be deleted and the sender will have access to your name/IP/email address and password.

It's mainly going round Hotmail, AOL, and Gmail.

That was an FTR service announcement, please resume to normal proceedings. :P

{This is a hoax. http://securityresponse.symantec.com...iful.hoax.html - gutshot}

thank you for the heads up. Will have to tell my dad, I know not to open attachments :D.

just curious.. did you get burned by this?

I don't know but.. if someone I don't know sends me a email with an attachment called that, it's deleted straight away. If it's someone I know, I'd ask them first because why would anyone send me anything so obviously a virus? :D

That attachment is as bad as "Here is my pic!". Anyone who falls for them, is no good at email.

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Originally Posted by Grand_MasterB

just curious.. did you get burned by this?

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Nope, just got an email warning about it, thought I'd better spread the word.

http://securityresponse.symantec.com...iful.hoax.html

Please do the whole internet a favor and check out stuff like this before forwarding it.

{Locked - DMan pwned}

-'rilla