My mom recently got the following e-mail:

VERY IMPORTANT WARNING Please Be Extremely Careful especially
if using internet mail such as Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL 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 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 Software's 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 EMAIL TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS and PASS IT ON IMMEDIATELY.

Please do not open this, as I would hate it for people to be losing their data.

~MarioFreak~

I appreciate the warning, but I think this one is a hoax: http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/life.asp

How about just scan al lthe fies before you download them? its a simple setup you can do with any Antivirus program.

As stated, this one is a hoax that's been around for 3 years. That being said, even if this was real anybody who opens unknown attachments pretty much gets what they have coming to them.

Got to love snopes. They have answers to everything.

My mom recently got the following e-mail:

LOL...took me about two or three attempts, but I've finally convinced my mom to check out all of her Fwd's on Snopes before passing them along. At first it was a little awkward, but ultimately she didn't want to be passing along garbage so she took it quite well in the end.

I appreciate the warning, but I think this one is a hoax: http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/life.asp

DAH IS IT THE VIRUS?!