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Another Virus
320997 PostPosted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 5:43 pm Thank this member for this postReply with quote
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Apparently there is a new virus via email.


If you see something to do with "Life is Beautiful" Don't open it apparently then you get a message saying Life is not beautiful and your name, passwords and email can be obtained.

I heard about it from a friend in an email but it asked for the email to be forwarded but I don't like emails that ask for things to be forwarded so I didn't and have deleted the email.

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Re: Another Virus
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zulurita wrote:
Apparently there is a new virus via email.


If you see something to do with "Life is Beautiful" Don't open it apparently then you get a message saying Life is not beautiful and your name, passwords and email can be obtained.

I heard about it from a friend in an email but it asked for the email to be forwarded but I don't like emails that ask for things to be forwarded so I didn't and have deleted the email.


Hoax Rita see here


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It's a hoax.

From Google;
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Re: Another Virus
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zulurita wrote:
Apparently there is a new virus via email.

It's always worth Googling first - usually nothing new under the sun. Wink

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Maybe a silly question but I'm not as Internet literate as I ought to be, but if you "Google" a virus do you run a risk of catching it? If you know what I mean! :hathat34:

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Maybe a silly question but I'm not as Internet literate as I ought to be, but if you "Google" a virus do you run a risk of catching it? If you know what I mean!

Nope. It's the same risk as asking someone about a throat infection. You'd have to snog them before you caught it; the computer equivalent would be to download a file from somewhere, but if your firewall & anti-virus software is installed, it should be caught (like a face mask, although I accept it takes the fun out of snogging....)

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No

You ask a question
Google points you at sites where you can find an answer.

In the case of a virus it will include the anti virus software suppliers ie Semantic or perhaps Wikipedia.

Try by clicking on the url I put in my post above.

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I like your answer Dougie.
I'm sorry mine was so technical. Very Happy

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If you google all that happens is a list of possible hits is downloaded you then choose which to look at.

Going to snopes is better IMO as there is no risk of downloading a virus file even if you click wildly Smile plus you can check out all sorts of urban myths.


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