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VERY IMPORTANT WARNING
Please Be Extremely Careful especially if using Internet mail such as

Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL and so on.. This information arrived this morning

from Microsoft and Norton. Please send it to everybody 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 who

sent it to you gain access to your name, e-mail and password..

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 antivirus 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 EMAIL TO ALL YOUR

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from Snopes
http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/life.asp

Origins: This warning about a Microsoft PowerPoint file named "Life
is Beautiful" carrying a a computer-destroying virus is a hoax, one
that has been with us since at least January 2002. It originally
circulated in Portuguese but was later translated into English and a
host of other languages.

Although this particular example is a hoax, PowerPoint presentations
can contain viruses, so prudent computer users should always check
downloaded or e-mailed PowerPoint presentations (and all other
non-text attachments) before opening them.

In September 2002 this hoax was circulated anew as "Everything is
Beautiful," and it popped up again in 2003 re-titled as "Life is Wonderful."

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Symantec Security Response

Life is beautiful Hoax

Reported on: January 15, 2002
Last Updated on: September 17, 2002 08:18:39 PM

Symantec Security Response encourages you to ignore any messages
regarding this hoax.
It is harmless and is intended only to cause unwarranted concern.
At 04:59 AM 10/26/2005, Homoeopathic Help Line wrote:

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Dear Pauline

When you get such a mail, just check with Google before forwarding.

This is a HOAX.
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/d ... .hoax.html

Rgds
Soroush