[AGL] Fwd: Another warning that may cause your computer to crash!

[Jon Ford]

Let's get this staight: If I receive such a warning (unlikely, because the 
very existence of it is a "hoax" according to Snopes), I should take care 
because the warning itself may cause my computer to crash (even though the 
whole thing is a hoax and there is no virus or warning at all, just  a 
strange email that contradicts itself at the end???? So the remedy is??? 
Don't read anonymous chain letter-style warnings on the Internet. OK-- but I 
never do--except for this one, which I swear will be my last one ever!

Jon ford


>From: michele mason <yaya.m at earthlink.net>

>Reply-To: survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 

>60s<austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>

>To: survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 

>60s<austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>

>Subject: [AGL] Fwd: Another warning that may cause your computer to crash!

>Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 09:57:13 -0500

>

>Just received from my son. Joseph, in Dallas.  mm

>

>Begin forwarded message:

>

>>From: Joseph Mason <jayd0409 at sbcglobal.net>

>>Date: May 14, 2007 11:22:29 AM CDT

>>Subject: FW: Another warning that may cause your computer to crash!

>>

>>

>>

>>

>>-----Original Message-----

>>From: fskinner at chubb.com [mailto:fskinner at chubb.com]

>>Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 7:10 AM

>>To: jazzmoni69 at sbcglobal.net; nonecksrevenge at aol.com; Charles Holliday;

>>squinna at swbell.net

>>Subject: Fw: Another warning that may cause your computer to crash!

>>

>>

>>

>>      I M P O R T A N T W A R N I N G ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

>>

>>      Anyone-using Internet mail such as Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL and so on.

>>

>>      This information arrived this morning, Directs 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 with a Power Point

>>      presentation "Life is beautiful."

>>

>>      If you receive it DO NOT OPEN THE FILE UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES,

>>      and delete it immediately.

>>

>>      If you open this file, a message will appear on your screen

>>      saying:

>>

>>      "It is too late now, your life is no longer beautiful."

>>

>>      Subsequently you will LOSE EVERYTH ING IN YOUR PC, And the

>>      person who sent it to you will gain access to your name, e-ma il

>>      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!!!!

>>

>>

>>                          (Embedded image moved to file: pic12052.gif)

>>

>>

>>

>>

>>

>>

>>

>>

>>

>>

>>

>>

>>

>>      1. Urban Legends Reference Pages: Life Is Beautiful ....

>>      Information about the 'Life is Beautiful' PowerPoint computer

>>virus.

>>      ...Home --> Computers --> Virus Hoaxes & Realities --> Life Is

>>      Beautiful Life Is Beautiful Virus: Life is Beautiful.pps Example:

>>      [Collected on the...

>>      ...an apparently harmless email with a PowerPoint presentation

>>called

>>      "Life is beautiful.pps." If you receive it DO NOT OPEN THE FILE

>>UNDER

>>      ANY...

>>      ...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...

>>      Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:15:36 GMT

>>      http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/life.asp

>>

>>

>>

>>

>>

>>

>>

>>

>>      See what's free at AOL.com.




><< pic12052.gif >>




>>

>>


_________________________________________________________________
More photos, more messages, more storage—get 2GB with Windows Live Hotmail. 
http://imagine-windowslive.com/hotmail/?locale=en-us&ocid=TXT_TAGHM_migration_HM_mini_2G_0507