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April 06, 2005
'Life Is Beautiful' Virus Hoax
Making the email rounds again, this bogus alert purporting to originate from Microsoft and Norton Antivirus claims that a PowerPoint file titled "Life Is Beautiful.pps" contains a destructive computer virus and shouldn't be opened under any circumstances. Oddly enough, hundreds of thousands of people have received this warning over the past three years, but I have yet to hear a single report of anyone encountering the malicious file itself. Could that be because it doesn't exist? Hmmm...