Brit Canuck
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VIRUS ALERT - 'Mail Server Report'
A new virus is making the rounds online. It has the ability to completely erase your hard drive and send your personal information to the hacker responsible. And so far, no anti-virus software program has proven effective against it.
Here's the e-mail I received from a friend:
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 Internet.
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 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 anti virus softwares
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!
THIS HAS BEEN CONFIRMED BY SNOPES.
http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/mailserver.asp
* This suggests that the e-mail comes with at least one attachment.
Do not open either the e-mail or the attachment.
Check your e-mail immediately and delete any 'Mail Server Report' e-mails or related files and attachments without opening them.
Thanks for reading.
Last edited by Brit Canuck, 2/15/2009, 11:02 pm
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2/15/2009, 10:56 pm
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