VIRUS WARNING

[Geoff Sykes]

You people are SO superstitious. And gullible. A little internet research,
(less than two minutes), and I found the truth behind the "life is
beautiful" HOAX!

>From www.snopes.com

Origins:   This warning about a Microsoft PowerPoint file named "Life is
Beautiful" carrying 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."

More about this on snopes.com visit:
http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/life.asp


The hoax is confirmed by Symantec:
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/life.is.beautiful.hoax.html

Also confirmed by McAfee:
http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_99307.htm


The internet is not at all a safe and beautiful place. Even less so when you
blindly believe everything you read without a little bit of investigation.

-- Geoff Sykes
-- Assoc. Los Angeles









-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Hechler Family
Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 10:14 AM
To: pianotech; pianotech-ot
Subject: VIRUS WARNING
Importance: High


**VERY IMPORTANT WARNING***

**This is not a joke! **

**Please Be Extremely Careful especially if using internet mail such as
Yahoo, Hot mail, 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 email with a Power Point
presentation "Li fe is beautiful."**

**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 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 EMAIL TO ALL YOUR
FRIENDS and ask them to PASS IT ON IMMEDIATELY.***


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          **Rick Robinson, Consultant**

**MEDIA**** DESIGN ****GROUP**** ******


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-- 
Duaine Hechler
Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ
Tuning, Servicing & Rebuilding
Associate Member of the Piano Technicians Guild
Reed Organ Society Member
St. Louis, MO 63034
(314) 838-5587
dahechler@charter.net
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