Wendy,
You get points for your sincere concern and wanting to look out for us.
Unfortunately, this virus is a hoax that has been circulating since
2002. Whenever I get a warning like this, I check it out at Snopes.com.
Most of the time, these warnings are hoaxes, but every once in a while
they turn out to be true hazards. Goodness knows nobody wants to have
their 'puter compromised by these hackers. My own machine was partially
hijacked in December -- task manager was disabled, and a few other
things were disabled as well. I had to reload Windows. While I was
fortunate in being able to save *all* my data files in Word, Excel and
other programs, I lost *all* emails & addresses, as well as Internet
bookmarks.
Anyhow, here's the Snopes link about this matter:
http://www.snopes.com/computer/virus/life.asp
Thurlow Weed
Lancaster, OH
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