Smells like a hoax to me

[Jonny Two Shoes]

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 .
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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

So I thought I would post this just to be safe and ask about it.

However I don't see any virus being able to get your "name, e-mail and password" as described.

Firstly your "username" is possible as it is easy to get via registry.

Your e-mail probably depends on your e-mail client and because there are quite a few out there this seems unlikely.

Your password, is this ever stored locally on a workstation?? I don't think so...only way this could work is via a key logger.

What do you think?

 

[The_Unbeliever]

Hoax.

 

[Azrael]

yep, and a pretty old one at that

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

 

[dadecoza]

If you google the first line of the email (like you should have done in the first place), you will find the answer.

 

[Jonny Two Shoes]

I don't usually bother to google whole sentances as it hardly ever finds a result but this time you are right thanks

 

[ColinR]

As old as it is, I still love the fact that the original writer thought Norton was a reputable name to use. I mean, come on!

 

[AvOk]

If you google the first line of the email (like you should have done in the first place), you will find the answer.

so true! btw passwords for any internet browsing you have done (hotmail/facebook/gmail) are very easy to get, as well as Outlook/Outlook Express account password. login passwords, depends, part of domain or local account?