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Bob just reading an email CAN cause harm.
One of the preferred methods used these days is through graphics. When you open an email, if your settings allow viewing of graphics, a message is sent to a remote server requesting the image to be downloaded and thus confirming that the email address is active.
This is why you should block graphics and only open them if absolutely certain they are genuine and if you are using Outlook Express make sure the preview pane is switched off.

Thanks Bob and Errol will google in the future to avoid this and i have learnt something new today as well like being able to google the virus name i didn't know that you could.

Pauline.

Would it be sensible to pull this thread off the board ?

Don't apologise Pauline, you acted with the best intentions and the welfare of the GR peeps at heart. Col x

Hey Pauline :):)

You were right to ask, we are all learning new things all the time and the only way we learn is to find out things from others , me included :):)

Anytime you feel a little stuck or need help ask , hopefully someone will help you along the way :):)

Colin :):)

Not at all Pauline - I just find it so frustrating. I just hope people start to check facts out and do a little research - it only takes a couple of minutes. These hoaxes exist purely to create mischief and get us all emailing like mad.

Pauline,thanks
Your warning is well meant, but it is just as well to google the alleged name of a virus first,but do not panic,
most virus' are in attachments.....or in links to other websites...
as far as I am aware
just reading a email is NOT likely to cause any harm...


looks like i am wrong there!!! see later posts!!
Bob

Thanks again Colin i will think twice before putting up a thread like this again i only got it today from a friend and thought it would help people like me who worry.

Pauline xxx.

Hi Pauline :):)

You are very welcome :):)

We were all new to computers once and people should remember that to :):):)

anything i have doubt about

i go the library and open

on their computers

Sorry Errol but as i just said im new to this sorry if it makes you mad i apologise

Pauline xx.

Thanks Colin i don't post very much as im quite new to here and the p c i joined in august and im not very computer literate at the moment so you might say im a bit naive when it comes to things like this i just wanted to warn peeps about it didn't know it was a hoax.

Pauline xx.

aaarrrggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

How many more times?

Please please check out information before posting. This particular hoax has been around for about six years or so.

All this sort of thing serves to do is cause people to run around in a mad panic and email every single person they have ever come across in their lives, thus clogging up email servers around the world. It's a bit like a Mexican wave as it travels around the globe.

I probably write a message similar to this half a dozen times every week!

Hi Pauline, Hi All :):)

This one is actually a Hoax mail that has been doing the rounds since 2002.

Most hoax mails get others to send it to as many people as they can, its the way they work, they clog up e mail systems.

Thank you for adding the warning though, I would rather see one a hundred hoax warnings then one nasty virus

Colin :):)

Have a look at this website-

hoaxbusters.ciac.org

Its just another hoax folks!

Thanks Pauline x

ive read it pauline and thankyou xx

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Subject: VIRUS ALERT - NOT A JOKE
>
> 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
>
>
> 'Life 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 antivirus softwares
> are not capable of destroying it.
>
> The virus has been created by a hacker who calls himself 'life owner.'


Hope peeps will read this

Pauline.