Topic: Computer Virus

[patches]

Well, I just received this in an e-mail from school and thought I would pass it on to everyone at SSH!!!  I sure wish these people who create these things would just get a life!!!    

It seems this Worm is on the move again as snopes updated the information as of March 31, 2008

Anyone-using Internet email:

This information arrived directly from both Microsoft and Norton.

You may receive an apparently harmless e-mail titled

"Mail Server Report"

If you open either 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 last Saturday afternoon.  AOL has already confirmed the severity, and the anti virus softwares are not capable of destroying it.

The virus has been created by a hacker who calls himself 'life owner'.

THIS HAS BEEN CONFIRMED BY SNOPES:

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

[Tina]

I don't open any emails from names I don't know. Just for this reason. Thank you, Patti.

[Jim]

Great post Patti.    I really like the way you added the Snopes link to your post.  So many of these kinds of things are hoaxes and Snopes is the best place to go to find out if it's real or not. 

[Dianna]

Thank you for the heads-up, Patti. I hadn't heard about this one until you posted about it....

[patches]

Thanks, glad I could help!    I kinda figured it was legit since it came from the school, but I checked it out anyway and added the link, just in case anyone wanted to see for it themselves.