Has anyone recieved this e-mail or heard about it?

[Kala]

This is a warning my hubby was sent by e-mail…<br>
VERY IMPORTANT WARNING. Please be extremely careful if using Mail such as Yahoo, Hot mail, AOL, etc. This information arrived this morning from Microsoft and Norton. Please send it to every one you know who accesses the internet. You may receive an apparently harmless email with a power point presentation “life is beautiful. Pps”. 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 everything in your PC and the person that sent it to you will gain access to your name, e-mail and pass word. This is a new virus, which started to circulate on Saturday afternoon. We need to do everything possible to stop this virus 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 make a copy of this e-mail to all your friends and pass it on immediately please



WORST VIRUS EVER ---CNN ANNOUNCED

PLEASE SEND THIS TO EVERYONE ON YOUR CONTACT LIST!!


A new virus has just been discovered that has been classified by Microsoft as the most destructive ever. This virus was discovered yesterday afternoon by McAfee and no vaccine has yet been developed. This virus simply destroys Sector Zero from the hard disk, where vital information for its functioning is stored.

This virus acts in the following manner:
It sends itself automatically to all contacts on your list with the title:
"A Card for You".

As soon as the supposed virtual card is opened the computer freezes so
that the user has to reboot. When the ctrl+alt+delkeys or the reset button are pressed, the virus destroys Sector Zero, thus permanently destroying the hard disk. Yesterday in just a few hours this virus caused panic in New York, according to news broadcast by CNN.

This alert was received by an employee of Microsoft itself.
So don't open any mails with subject: "A Virtual Card for You." As soon as you get the mail, delete it!! Even if you know the sender !!!


Please pass this mail to all of your friends.

Forward this to everyone in your address book. I'm sure most people, like myself, would rather receive this notice 25 times than not at All

[Mary Ann]

It's a hoax.

From the CNN website:

The Worst Virus Ever (CNN) Hoax
This is yet another silly virus warning hoax in the long line of virus hoaxes started by the The "Good Times" virus hoax. There are many hoaxes like this that warn you to avoid some email and then ask you to pass on the warning. Whenever you see something in this pattern you can assume this is a hoax. Please, please, NEVER forward any email that makes requests (as this one does) to send the email to everyone; such an email will never stop circulating.

This version is currently the most common form of this hoax:

WORST EVER VIRUS (CNN announced)

PLEASE SEND THIS TO EVERYONE ON YOUR CONTACT LIST !!

A new virus has just been discovered that has been
classified by Microsoft as the most destructive ever!

This virus was discovered yesterday afternoon by
McAfee and no vaccine has yet been developed. This
virus simply destroys Sector Zero from the hard disk,
where information for its functioning are stored.
This virus acts in the following manner:

It sends itself automatically to all contacts on your
list with the title "A Virtual Card for You." As soon
as the supposed virtual card is opened, the computer
freezes so that the user has to reboot.

When the ctrl+alt+del keys or the reset button are
pressed, the virus destroys Sector Zero, thus
permanently destroying the hard disk.

Yesterday in just a few hours this virus caused panic
in New York, according to news broadcast by CNN.

This alert was received by an employee of Microsoft
itself. So don't open any mails with subject: "A
Virtual Card for You." As soon as you get the mail,
delete it. Please pass this mail to all of your
friends.

Forward this to everyone in your address book.

I would rather receive this 25 times than not at all.
Also: Intel announced that a new and very destructive
virus was discovered recently.

If you receive an email called "An Internet Flower
For You," do not open it. Delete it right away! This
virus removes all dynamic link libraries (.dll files)
from your computer. Your computer will not be able to
boot up!!


Further red-flags that the above is a hoax are the statements in the hoax about CNN, McAfee, and Microsoft that attempt to appeal to authority but provide no substantiation (such as an URL on the respective company's websites).

There are a number of variations of the above hoax (the sections on the 'Internet flower' and 'Virtual Card' may not both be present or replaced with some other supposed virus).

Please note, that there are destructive programs that can arrive via email and it's certainly possible that one could arrive in an email with the title 'Be My Valentine'. (See the Happy99 Trojan.) It is certainly good advice to NEVER accept any email with attachments that you did not request.

[Chrisnstar]

Kala, you can always check out virus warnings to see of they are hoaxes on this web site:

http://www. snopes.com

You also can check out the truthfulness of all those stories floating around the net, you know like little Billy has cancer and would like emails from around the world.... 99.9 percent of those are pure BS...

chris