[Vision2020] New Virus?

[Paul Rumelhart]

Hoax or not, it's a good reminder not to open attachments from strangers.

I'd also recommend using an email client that makes you jump through 
hoops to run executables, such as Mozilla's Thunderbird program, or 
running OpenOffice to view Microsoft Word, Excel, and Powerpoint files.

Microsoft is making forward progress on security issues, but most of 
their stuff has been deliberately designed to interact with everything 
else at the drop of a hat.  In a perfect world this would be a good 
thing, but in the reality in which we live it causes many thousands of 
machines to be taken over as automated zombies sending spam, and many 
people to learn the intracacies of canceling credit cards.

If you truly want to be safe, run Linux :)

Paul

Saundra Lund wrote:

>It's a very old hoax:
>http://www.symantec.com/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid=2002-011511-0444
>-99&tabid=2
>OR
>http://tinyurl.com/nmaxg
>
>
>HTH,
>Saundra Lund
>Moscow, ID
>
>The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do
>nothing.
>- Edmund Burke
>
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]
>On Behalf Of J Ford
>Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 4:14 PM
>To: vision2020 at moscow.com
>Subject: [Vision2020] New Virus?
>
>
>Anyone else see this?  Is it true?
>
>This was sent to me by a good friend; however, I'm not sure how true this
>is.
>
>Please Be Extremely Careful, especially if 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 email 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 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 antivirus softwares are not
>capable of destroying it. The virus has been created by a hacker who calls
>himself "life owner ."
>
>Anyone?
>
>J  :]
>
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