Better to be safe than sorry, but so often these messages are doing the
rounds well after the viruses have been contained ...
---- Original Message ----
From: Karen Carter
To:
[log in to unmask]Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 4:30
AM
Subject: FW: virus warning checked out on snopes
> Yes I checked
it out on Snopes too and it's real!!!
> Vickie
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> I checked this with snopes. It's a real
one.
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> Anyone-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 t o 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'.
>
> PLEASE SEND A COPY OF
THIS E-MAIL TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS, And ask them to
> PASS IT ON
IMMEDIATELY!
>
> THIS HAS BEEN CONFIRMED BY SNOPES
>
>
http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/mailserver.asp
>
Truthorfiction.com description of this virus
> please note:
>
> THIS ONE IS REAL!!!!!
> F-Secure names the virus
Warezov. Other virus protection sites
> called it Stration.bb or
W32/Stration-X.
>
> The email says that it has been determined
that emails containing a
> worm are being sent from your computer and that
you should install
> the attachment to update your computer and,
presumably, stop the
> virus from being sent. The problem, of
course, is that the
> attachment itself is a virus that searches your
computer for email
> addresses and sends itself to
them.
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>
> No
virus found in this outgoing message.
> Checked by AVG.
> Version:
7.5.519 / Virus Database: 269.22.1/1350 - Release Date:
> 3/30/2008 12:32
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