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Title: Latest Virus Alert
Post by: Snoopy on December 04, 2010, 08:23:52 AM
Had a warning from reliable sources about a dangerous new virus.

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Simon Ashton is a hacker (Simon25@Hotmail.co.uk) calls himself 'Life Owner'.
He sends e-mails sometimes called 'Mail Server Reports' and if they are not deleted before being opened they give access to all the files, passwords. e-mails etc., but also to anyone who has been in contact via e-mail and hence to pass the virus to them.
Apparently the message reads "It is too late your life is no longer beautiful' Subsequently you will lose everything in your P.C.
XXXXXXX is reliable and he says that the problem started last Saturday. A.O.L.,Microsoft, and Norton have already warned that no anti-virus software is capable of containing it.

The same warning, from another source, arrived in the wife's email yesterday.
Title: Re: Latest Virus Alert
Post by: Nick on December 04, 2010, 08:42:55 AM
How can you delete before opening?? Just wondering, like.
Title: Re: Latest Virus Alert
Post by: Barman on December 04, 2010, 08:46:07 AM
It is a hoax (http://www.hoax-slayer.com/life-is-beautiful-virus-hoax.html) like...

You can pretty much guarantee that if the 'warning' contains a phrase like "A.O.L.,Microsoft, and Norton have already warned that no anti-virus software is capable of containing it" it is a hoax...
Title: Re: Latest Virus Alert
Post by: Snoopy on December 04, 2010, 09:12:11 AM
I only pass it on .... make of it what you will. whistle:
Title: Re: Latest Virus Alert
Post by: Snoopy on December 04, 2010, 09:13:39 AM
Quote from: Nick on December 04, 2010, 08:42:55 AM
How can you delete before opening?? Just wondering, like.

Same way I delete everything when I don't recognise the sender's address. I press the delete button. Seemples  ;)
Title: Re: Latest Virus Alert
Post by: Barman on December 17, 2010, 09:44:59 AM
INTERNET WARNING.


THIS IS GENUINE. I CHECKED IT OUT!  eeek:


IF YOU RECEIVE AN E-MAIL TITLED “NUDE PHOTOS OF SUSAN BOYLE” DON’T OPEN IT.






IT REALLY DOES CONTAIN NUDE PHOTOS OF SUSAN BOYLE!


Happy001
Title: Re: Latest Virus Alert
Post by: Pastis on December 17, 2010, 12:08:37 PM
You & Yours ... right now

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wlh18

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And at 1230 "Lions, Gold and Confusion," our first adaptation of Delete This At Your Peril - the Bob Servant E-Mails, by Neil Forsyth. In today's episode Bob assists a Nigerian Prince and recruits wild animals for a private zoo.

 razz:

Title: Re: Latest Virus Alert
Post by: Pastis on January 06, 2011, 05:10:13 PM
Can't find a dedicated Spam thread but here seems appropriate:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12126880

Why oh why, I wonder?  rubschin:
Title: Re: Latest Virus Alert
Post by: Snoopy on January 06, 2011, 05:14:42 PM
Hopefully they have run their course as people have become more savvy to them but don't hold your breath.