Check it out! New email virus!

[Rondo]

Unfortunately this appears to be legit...please be aware. Snopes confirms this!

VERY IMPORTANT! PLEASE READ THIS - These e-mails are floating around currently.

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 “Here you have it” If you open either 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 a Saturday afternoon. AOL has already confirmed the severity, and the anti virus software's are not capable of destroying it.

The virus has been created by a hacker who calls himself 'life owner'.


http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/hereyouhave.asp

[CORattler]

Verified... thanks for the alert! Go to http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/virus-...ry?id=11666038 for more info.

[Countryfolks]

This trojan was discovered 9-10 Sept and apparently is like many others, it spreads by spamming itself to everyone in your address book. I read the referenced sites and symantec. It appears to want passwords and blocks your antivirus programs like most of them do now. None of the referenced sites said anything at all about killing you machine or anything else. Symantec classes it as moderate. Macafee and symantec both say they have signatures for finding it (as of 13 Sept) although there may still be variants. The message in the email wants you to open a pdf file which is the worm itself. Just don't open any mail from friends, family or any one else that has "the subject line "Here You Have." The body reads: "This is The Document I told you about, you can find it Here." Or, "This is The Free Download Sex Movies, you can find it Here." or anything of this nature.

[Exnavydiver]

Ron, it is like Skip says. The email announcement you posted is the usual (scare everybody with dire words) virus announcement that has been used for just about every virus in the last ten years. They announce a new virus but have absolutely no clue as to what it is actually doing. I ALWAYS read the supposedly authentic Snopes confirmation and as usual what is in the announcement and what is said on Snopes is very different. A lot of folks just forward these with ever checking the authenticity of the original announcement. Oh and by the way, we should be in KC by next Thursday or Friday... Dave

[footloose]

Thanks for the heads up. Checked with Symantec. Here's what I found.
Sharon
The worm does not successfully attack Norton/Symantec products, but it disables many other common AntiVirus products. Once running on the computer, the threat attempts to e-mail a copy of the original e-mail to all e-mail addresses found in the infected user’s e-mail address book.The threat also attempts to spread from computer to computer over the local network (to other machines on your home or office network) by copying itself to open drive shares found on other machines on the network. Once the threat copies itself to another machine, if a user even opens the folder that contains the threat on this new machine, this will launch the threat and cause it to spread further through both e-mail and over shared drives.

[Devildog]

Also, a virus circulating that shows as US Postal Service treacking. Unless you are actually tracking an item, don't click on it. Been out for a few weeks.

[Countryfolks]

Here's the snopes page on this one, you have to go all the way to the bottom to see the article update. It's an old virus that has reappeared in sept with a new twist.
http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/ups.asp
My BiL has seen this one in the last week or so and says one give away is the email IS NOT from a dot gov address also the package would have been returned to the sender (he's retired post office).