Mike.C
Established Member
I received the above, and i foolishly opened it because i know the person who sent it.
Inside it started by giving a few hundred names of people who had apparently in turn forwarded to it someone they know.
Then at the bottom of the email it stated:
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, 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, email address and password.
AOL has already confirmed the severity, and the antivirus softwares are not capable of destroying it.
It ends by saying: PLEASE SEND A COPY OF THIS TO YOUR FRIENDS AND ASK THEM TO PASS IT ON TO THEIR FRIENDS.
I have never received this sort of thing before and being a complete novice i do not know how to act, and whether it contains a virus, or something else in my computer. But as far as i know this is how a virus acts, although i thought that it just sends itself to any email address on you computer, and not rely on someone to pass it on.
I have the free AVG running to see if i have a virus, but what else can i do, to either find out if this is a virus and if so get rid of it.
This might be a totally innocence email, but you have got to be totally stupid to pass a email like this onto someone else, or does this sort of thing happen all the time, and i have no right to have the hump with him?
What can i do?
Cheers
Mike
Inside it started by giving a few hundred names of people who had apparently in turn forwarded to it someone they know.
Then at the bottom of the email it stated:
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, 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, email address and password.
AOL has already confirmed the severity, and the antivirus softwares are not capable of destroying it.
It ends by saying: PLEASE SEND A COPY OF THIS TO YOUR FRIENDS AND ASK THEM TO PASS IT ON TO THEIR FRIENDS.
I have never received this sort of thing before and being a complete novice i do not know how to act, and whether it contains a virus, or something else in my computer. But as far as i know this is how a virus acts, although i thought that it just sends itself to any email address on you computer, and not rely on someone to pass it on.
I have the free AVG running to see if i have a virus, but what else can i do, to either find out if this is a virus and if so get rid of it.
This might be a totally innocence email, but you have got to be totally stupid to pass a email like this onto someone else, or does this sort of thing happen all the time, and i have no right to have the hump with him?
What can i do?
Cheers
Mike
