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zavix
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Posted: 11th Nov 2007 20:23 Edited at: 11th Nov 2007 20:26
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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 TO OTHER FORUMS YOU KNOW and ask them to Pass IT ON IMMEDIATELY


you may take this as a joke but it's totally true. I swear. and I was told to spread the word by the janitor on another forum somewhere. the message was addressed Directly from MICROSOFT and the NORTON ANTIVIRUS COMPANY. TRUSTED SOURCES!

I don't care what they say. T3DGM Rules!!!
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tha_rami
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Posted: 11th Nov 2007 20:30 Edited at: 11th Nov 2007 20:30
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Uhm, it's a fake. They cannot retrieve your name, e-mail or password through a powerpoint presentation. With an .exe, it could not retrieve your password nevertheless.

This is a normal chain hoax. Lots of capitalisation, shouting around of big names and urgency warnings. Did you check these 'trusted sources'?


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hessiess
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Posted: 11th Nov 2007 20:32 Edited at: 11th Nov 2007 20:33
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highly doubt it will affect Linux(if it is real)

its easy to change the extension on a file and make windows see it as a different kind of file.

learn blender, you will never regret it.
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Xenocythe
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Posted: 11th Nov 2007 20:32
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He speaks the truth, fellow TGC'ers.

Google is your best friend.


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tha_rami
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Posted: 11th Nov 2007 20:34
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Oh no! It's true!

For those of you mature enough to handle the horrifying truth:



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Agent Dink
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Posted: 11th Nov 2007 20:35
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Quote: "MICROSOFT and the NORTON ANTIVIRUS COMPANY. TRUSTED SOURCES!
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Hmmm, don't know that they can be 100% trusted.

BTW, I get these all the time. I consider them spam just as much as the stocks and Viagra e-mails.

Who knows how old this virus even is. That e-mail could be ancient.

Warning: Please be advised. Geek Culture is under lockdown. All mods are set to Indi mode. Any and all topics WILL BE LOCKED. Post at your own risk!
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Jeff032
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Posted: 11th Nov 2007 20:43 Edited at: 11th Nov 2007 20:45
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The lies....THE LIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/life-is-beautiful-virus-hoax.html
http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_99307.htm

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MonoCoder
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Posted: 11th Nov 2007 20:45
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The first thing I do when I receive shady emails I wasn't expecting, containing something as curious as a powerpoint presentation with an ambiguous title like "Life is Beautiful", decorated with the apparent long needless strings of capital letters and such, is open it without a care in the world.

EBA; FUI; Mario Land Ripoff.
Every time you post a joke in the form of code, mace yourself.
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SpyDaniel
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Posted: 11th Nov 2007 20:45
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I bet its from 1995 and some kid who made an email address back then, just logged on this year to find a single spam mail. He would have then sent it to all of his friends, because he has no internet knowledge nor computer knowledge.

Or some thing easily as stupid.

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Xenocythe
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Posted: 11th Nov 2007 20:46
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Er... then again... your best friend Google can lie to you sometimes...



And I trusted you...


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gamebird
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Posted: 11th Nov 2007 21:21
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Its fake.
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Guyra
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Posted: 11th Nov 2007 21:31
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..if Norton and MS sent around e-mails written as unprofessionally as that, I'd say the world was going to hell.

In addition to being badly written(CAPS lockm badly worded sentences, etc.), they would not send out anything like that to anybody except the people on their mailing lists, and they would never say:

"PLEASE SEND A COPY OF THIS EMAIL TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS AND TO OTHER FORUMS YOU KNOW and ask them to Pass IT ON IMMEDIATELY"

In addition, they wouldn't have sent it in plain text format, and they would certainly also advertise for their products at the same time.
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Grandma
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Posted: 11th Nov 2007 21:51
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I've seen viagra spam-mails more literate than that.

Quote: "life is beutiful hoax"


I knew it couldn't be true.

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Zappo
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Posted: 11th Nov 2007 22:07
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Neither Microsoft nor Norton email out virus warnings themselves. Norton would just add it to their definitions so customers would get it automatically.
Any email which tells you to forward it to as many people as possible is ALWAYS a fraud. By posting it here you are only helping to spread the irrational fear. Please look these things up before passing them on.


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Guyra
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Posted: 11th Nov 2007 22:08
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@Grandma: Heisann, enda en nordmann!
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Keo C
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Posted: 11th Nov 2007 22:56
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*sigh* I hate it when people post this stuff w/o looking it up first.


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Grandma
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Posted: 12th Nov 2007 00:24 Edited at: 12th Nov 2007 00:24
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Quote: "@Grandma: Heisann, enda en nordmann!"


You might not have noticed me before because i've been here in geek culture (and more recently on the music board) exclusively.

Now go away, you're embarrassing me.

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