Mail Server Report Virus--Doubtful

[W. eWatson]

Got this from a friend today. I doubt the validity. Comments? It goes on
to say it was verified by Snopes as true.

VERY IMPORTANT , PLEASE READ THIS

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...'

[Tom Willett]

Whenever you get a canned email that says: 'please send it to everyone you
know'...it's a hoax. Your "friend" isn't much of a friend for sending
crapware before checking it out.

The originators of the bogus email simply want everyone to show their
ignorance and forward it.

"W. eWatson" <wolft...@invalid.com> wrote in message
news:hfjogm$oji$1...@news.eternal-september.org...
: Got this from a friend today. I doubt the validity. Comments? It goes on

[W. eWatson]

Not all friends are computer savvy. In any case, I see no one here
posting about it, so I doubt it's true. I never open that stuff anyway.

[W. eWatson]

One more point, I usually check these things out anyway to dissuade them
from sending it on to more people.

[David H. Lipman]

From: "W. eWatson" <wolft...@invalid.com>

| One more point, I usually check these things out anyway to dissuade them
| from sending it on to more people.

http://www.hoax-slayer.com/

--
Dave
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[MEB]

Some friend... sending apparent crapmail... you might want to verify
whether it was *actually* sent BY that person and not coming from a
compromised account.

So did you bother to check the header and body source for return to and
other activities?
Does your supposed friend know anything about computing security?
Has your friend previously sent you stuff like this before?

Beyond that, these services have been repeatedly compromised and this
type of described activity occurs ALL the time, so the *warning* itself
generally WOULD be valid [though perhaps not the exact supposed message
indicated], though potentially not from legitimate sources. You should
also be cautious of ALL seemingly legitimate mail as well, as many fake
mails use seemingly valid identifiers, such as from: Microsoft, and the
AV/malware providers.

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