Hacker.

gwaithcoed · 12 Jan 2010

Just had this email from a friend. Make of it what you will

THIS IS NO JOKE
>
> IF A PERSON CALLED SIMON ASHTON ( [email protected] ) CONTACTS
YOU THROUGH EMAIL DON'T OPEN THE MESSAGE. DELETE IT BECAUSE HE IS A
HACKER!!
>
> TELL EVERYONE ON YOUR LIST BECAUSE IF SOMEBODY ON YOUR LIST ADDS HIM
THEN YOU WILL GET HIM ON YOUR LIST. HE WILL FIGURE OUT YOUR ID COMPUTER
ADDRESS, SO COPY AND PASTE THIS MESSAGE TO EVERYONE EVEN IF YOU DONT
CARE FOR THEM AND FAST BECAUSE IF HE HACKS THEIR EMAIL HE HACKS YOUR
MAIL TOO!!!!!....
>
> 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
Intern et. 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 wh o 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 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!

Daven · 12 Jan 2010

Hoax as far as I am aware (http://www.hoax-slayer.com/simon25-hacker-hoax.shtml).

Still if you don't know him don't open it anyway :wink:
Dave

toysandboats · 12 Jan 2010

Snopes has it as an Urban Myth:

Snopes

and says that this version has been doing the rounds since March 2009

David

yo_chuci · 12 Jan 2010

just had this from me dad too...
sent him this...

(Submitted, April 2008)
Important!!

Better safe than sorry!!

Send this onto your friends

IF THIS PERSON CALLED SIMON ASHTON ([email protected]) CONTACTS YOU THROUGH EMAIL DONT ACCEPT HIM. DELETE HIM BECAUSE HE IS A HACKER!!

TELL EVERYONE ON YOUR LIST BECAUSE IF SOMEBODY ON YOUR LIST ADDS HIM THEN YOU WILL GET HIM ON YOUR LIST. HE WILL FIGURE OUT YOUR ID COMPUTER ADDRESS, SO COPY AND PASTE THIS MESSAGE TO EVERYONE AND FAST BECAUSE IF HE HACKS THEIR EMAIL HE HACKS YOUR MAIL TOO!!!!!..

Tenko · 12 Jan 2010

How silly can people be ?

Up to date virus program, firewall running ??

Mates have sent me messages like that before, I replied, 'Send me another and you will be blocked'

I can't do with stupid people sending such rubbish, but then again, I do not suffer fools gladly.

If you want to go out and seek viruses, join Facebook. I've had to sort out 2 mates computers with trojans since Xmas because of Facebook.

Smudger · 12 Jan 2010

Oldie but Goldie

NEW VIRUS WARNING

If you receive an e-mail with a subject line of "Badtimes," delete it immediately WITHOUT reading it. This is the most dangerous Email virus yet.

It will re-write your hard drive. Not only that, but it will scramble any disks that are even close to your computer. It will recalibrate your refrigerator's coolness setting so all your ice cream melts and milk curdles . It will demagnetize the strips on all your credit cards, reprogram your ATM access code, screw up the tracking on your VCR and use subspace field harmonics to scratch any CDs you try to play.

It will give your ex-boy/girlfriend your new phone number. It will mix antifreeze into your fish tank. It will drink all your beer and leave its dirty socks on the coffee table when there's company coming over.

It will hide your car keys when you are late for work and interfere with your car radio so that you hear only static while stuck in traffic.

Badtimes will give you nightmares about circus midgets. It will replace your shampoo with Nair and your Nair with Rogaine, all while dating your current boy/girlfriend behind your back and billing their hotel rendezvous to your Visa card.

It will seduce your grandmother. It does not matter if she is dead, such is the power of Badtimes, it reaches out beyond the grave to sully those things we hold most dear.

Badtimes will give you Dutch Elm disease. It will leave the toilet seat up and leave the hairdryer plugged in dangerously close to a full bathtub. It will wantonly remove the forbidden tags from your mattresses and pillows, and refill your skim milk with whole. It is insidious and subtle. It is dangerous and terrifying to behold. It is also a rather interesting shade of mauve.