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virus warning , is it true
« on: October 08, 2009, 03:03:15 PM »
THIS IS NO JOKE - IT WAS REPORTED ON BRITISH TELEVISION LAST NIGHT WITH A WARNING, SO PLEASE TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY.

IF A PERSON CALLED SIMON ASHTON ([email protected]  )  CONTACTS YOU THROUGH EMAIL, DON'T OPEN THE MESSAGE. DELETE IT IMMEDIATELY BECAUSE HE IS A HACKER!!

TELL EVERYONE ON YOUR LIST BECAUSE IF SOMEBODY ON YOUR LIST ADDS
HIM THEN YOU WILL GET HIM ON YOUR LIST. HE WILL FIGURE OUT YOUR ID AND
COMPUTER ADDRESS, SO COPY AND PASTE THIS MESSAGE TO EVERYONE EVEN IF YOU DONT KNOW THEM THAT WELL - AND FAST BECAUSE IF HE HACKS THEIR EMAIL HE HACKS YOUR MAIL TOO!!!!!...

Anyone-using Internet mail such as Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL, Googlemail and so on is vulnerable. 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 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 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'.


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Re: virus warning , is it true
« Reply #2 on: October 08, 2009, 03:36:55 PM »
so its a hoax  :rofl:

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Re: virus warning , is it true
« Reply #3 on: October 08, 2009, 05:01:05 PM »
I didn't even have to read the whole thing to know its obviously fake.
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Re: virus warning , is it true
« Reply #4 on: October 09, 2009, 03:16:08 AM »
If you ever get an e-mail warning about a virus (especially if it's in all caps), there's a 99% chance that it's fake.
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