Please Be Extremely Careful Especially if using Internet mail such as
Yahoo, Hotmail and so on. This information arrived this morning from
Microsoft and Norton.

Please send it to everybody you know who accesses the Internet. You may
receive an apparently harmless email with a Power Point presentation "Life
is beautiful. pps". 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. WE
NEED TO DO EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO STOP THIS VIRUS . AOL has already
confirmed the severity, and the antivirus Softs are not capable of
destroying it. The virus has been created by a hacker who calls himself
"life owner". PLEASE MAKE A COPY OF THIS E-MAIL TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS. PASS
IT ON .

and it sent me to this page: http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/life.is.beautiful.hoax.html

where I was informed that:

Life is beautiful Hoax
Reported on: January 15, 2002
Last Updated on: September 17, 2002 08:18:39 PM

Symantec Security Response encourages you to ignore any messages regarding this hoax. It is harmless and is intended only to cause unwarranted concern.

(You can read the rest of the details from the link if you would like to.)

Many thanks to ash, newcomer and karin.