[Bryn-gwlad] Fwd: I M P O R T A N T W A R N I NG ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! PLEASE READ!!!!!

[Blue Bains]

But thank you for your overwhelming concern as usual for all of our mundane
electrical devices , Gunvardarr
Siobahan
On Jan 17, 2008 3:46 PM, <tmcd at panix.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Ty Silvanage <ghetto_cowboy1984 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Note: forwarded message attached.
>
> Forward of a forward of a forward ... If you need to forward a
> message, please strip off the intermediate levels unless they're
> relevant.  You're exposing to the public lots of people's personal
> e-mail addresses, making them more visible to address harvesters and
> spammers.  There's also issues of mailbox size, download time (I'm
> still on dialup), and multiple paging down to get to the meat of the
> message -- people tend to ignore messages and Web pages that have no
> apparent payoff in a short time, especially because I first thought
> the only message was the stuff at the top:
>
> > BY THE BLOOD OF OUR FATHERS
> > OUR SWORDS WILL ANNOUNCE THE DEATH OF THE GIANTS
> ...
>
> Maybe Gunnvor would like to take a swing at this text.
>
> > You may receive an apparently harmless e-mail with a Power Point
> > presentation ' Life is Beautiful'
> ...
> > THIS HAS BEEN CONFIRMED BY SNOPES
>
> I'm afraid snopes has confirmed it as a six-year-old hoax.
>
> snopes.com is a site devoted to examining urban legends (it's the
> first hit on a Google search for "snopes").  snopes.com has a search
> box on the main page.  I entered "Life is Beautiful" and the first hit
> was applicable:
>
>    <http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/life.asp>
>
>    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."
>
> <http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp?id=description&virus_k=99307>
> is McAfee's page on the hoax, and
> <http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/pf/life.is.beautiful.hoax.html
> >
> is Symantec's.
>
> Most virus warnings are false.  Even if true, please don't spam out
> virus warnings.  People should be practicing safe computing anyway:
> people shouldn't open attachments unless the sender is trusted,
> they're expecting an attachment of that type at that time from that
> sender, and it doesn't look fishy (e.g., misspellings on e-mail that
> says it's from a US company).
>
> Dankyn de Lyncoln
> --
> Tim McDaniel; Reply-To: tmcd at panix.com
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