A Vida é Bela is a virus hoax. Hoax is a warning about a non-existent virus and it asks you to forward it to other people. This hoax warns of an infected PowerPoint presentation. It has been reported in Spanish, Portuguese, English, German and French
Name - A Vida é Bela
Other Names- A Beautiful Life, Life is beautiful, La vie est belle
Probable Risk Rating- None
Type/Sub Type - Hoax
Surfaced date - -
Mode of Infection - E-mail
Hoax Message
General Instructions to combat Hoax
Hoax virus messages may claim to do all some of the following:
Falsely claim to describe an extremely dangerous virus
Use pseudo-technical language to make impressive-sounding (but impossible) claims
Falsely claim that the report was issued or confirmed by a well-known company
Ask you to forward it to all your friends and colleagues
As usual, you are urged not to pass on warnings of this kind, as the continued re-forwarding of these hoaxes simply wastes time and email bandwidth.
It is possible that you may receive a hoax via email with a file attached. Such file attachments should be treated with caution as they may be virus infected.
Although no official research has been done on the subject, it is estimated that hoaxes can cost you even more than a genuine virus incident. After all, no anti-virus will detect hoaxes because they aren`t viruses. Some companies panic when they receive a hoax virus warning and assume the worst - making the situation much worse.
The amount of email that a typical hoax can generate is also a cost to organizations. Once a few people in your company have received a warning and mailed it to all their friends and colleagues, a mail overload can easily result.
You should not forward any virus warnings to only the department or staff member who looks after anti-virus issues. It doesn`t matter if the virus warnings have come from an anti-virus vendor or been confirmed by any large computer company or your best friend. All virus warnings should be sent to the designated person.
