"Life is Beautiful Virus" a Hoax

Many of you may have concerned friends one of whom might have received and forwarded the email to your friends, about "Life is beautiful" virus inside a Powerpoint file attached to an email.
I have one such concerned friend.
The email goes on about the threat, and about how a powerpoint attachment from an email, with subject "Life is beautiful" can damage your computer.
However, no matter how convening the email appears to be, with bigshots like AOL and Microsoft listed, its only a hoax and not a real threat. As far as I can tell, it does not even exist.
Firstly, even if it were real where is any link pointing to a news article or microsoft's or aol's website warning about it?
I found this article, Hoax alert, rather, from Trend Micro Antivirus Website which confirms that "Life is beautiful" virus is hoax and not real.
Here: http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/hoaxes/hoaxDetails.asp?HName=Life+is+Beautiful+Hoax+(English)

Be cautious, however, make sure all the relevant facts have been tallied against.
Take care
Karim Lalani