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04-02-2008, 06:39 PM | #1 |
Mojo, LilyGrace & Me Donating Member Moderator Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: cuddling with my babies<3
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| New Computer Virus?? My grandmother sent this to me...and said it was checked out on Snopes, but you just never know...that I would share! Very Important! Take note. 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 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 anti-virus software is not yet 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
__________________ Hi I'm Jenn Mom to..... Mojo,LilyGrace & DD Kate RIP Mojo FOREVER in our hearts! |
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04-02-2008, 06:53 PM | #2 |
Donating YT 7000 Club Member | that is scary!! Why do people do this!?! Thank you for letting us know!
__________________ Megan "I have my dreams, I have made plans." - The Pirate Queen All Gave Some; Some Gave All |
04-02-2008, 07:40 PM | #3 |
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| It's a mindset. These are the same folks that key cars of strangers and otherwise damage the property of people they don't even know. The internet has given them another venue. Vandals are vandals....criminals are criminals....be in in our real world or cyberspace. |
04-02-2008, 08:57 PM | #4 |
Donating YT 3000 Club Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Illinois
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| Here's the link to Snopes.com http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/mailserver.asp As I understand it, it says that the email contains a zip file. So opening the "email" shouldn't be a problem. But the direction in the email prompts you to open the "attachment". That's what you should NOT do.
__________________ Diane, and my boys ..... Coby and Reggie !! Striving to be a YTPP - a YT Positive Poster! In Memory of My Beautiful Mother 7/22/28-8/27/08 |
04-02-2008, 10:04 PM | #5 | |
..... and BLAIR'S too ...... Donating Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: USA
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| Yeah You Are Right !!!! Quote:
I had one of those and my PC on Saturday Morning and I opened it ..... we had to buy a new Harddrive ... cause I could not load Microsoft on the PC ..... SUCKED big time ..... .... I had to spend 100 $ for it to get it going again ....
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04-03-2008, 05:30 AM | #6 |
Donating YT 3000 Club Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Illinois
Posts: 4,139
| Just checking - did you open the email or the attachment inside the email?
__________________ Diane, and my boys ..... Coby and Reggie !! Striving to be a YTPP - a YT Positive Poster! In Memory of My Beautiful Mother 7/22/28-8/27/08 |
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