The message below was sent to my Mary from her friend
-----Original Message-----
From: ***********@gwas.nhs.uk]
Sent: 25 March 2008 08:25
To: **********.net
Subject: FW: IMPORTANT PLEASE READ[Scanned]
Importance: High
************ (Mrs)
PA to General Manager
Gloucestershire Sector
Tel: 01452 *******
Subject: FW: IMPORTANT PLEASE READ
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 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 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!
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dave says:
There is the possibilty
that, any warnings then sent [in compliance]
will list the sender's 'contacts list'
and return these, to the 'hacker'
My machine would have isolated and quarantined
any-such software..
so, there is no danger, in my having forwarded the above text to CF
I will underline.... that you shouldnt
OPEN active- 'stuff' from 'unknown senders'
and
if, you ARE, suspicious or at-all wary of,
'stuff' from friends....
you should use your best judgement/ caution
Claire, has probably, been similarly affected/ infected
dave