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CIAC Hoax Pages
Description: Brought to You By: The CIAC Team and The U.S. Department of Energy..................................... Interspersed among the junk mail and spam that fills our Internet e-mail boxes are dire warnings about devastating new viruses, Trojans that eat the heart out of your system, and malicious software that can steal the computer right off your desk. Added to that are messages about free money, children in trouble, and other items designed to grab you and get you to forward the message to everyone you know. Most all of these messages are hoaxes or chain letters. While hoaxes do not automatically infect systems like a virus or Trojan, they are still time consuming and costly to remove from all the systems where they exist. At CIAC, we find that we spend much more time de-bunking hoaxes than handling real virus and Trojan incidents. These pages describe some of the warnings, offers, and pleas for help that are filling our mailboxes, clogging our mailservers, and that generally do not have any basis in fact.
Added on: 28-Mar-2002 Hits: 242
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Hoaxes and scares (Sophos)
Description: Virus hoaxes are false reports about non-existent viruses, often claiming to do impossible things. Unfortunately some recipients occasionally believe a hoax to be a true virus warning and may take drastic action (such as shutting down their network). Sophos provides information about virus hoaxes, chain letters, scams and misunderstandings to aid companies and individuals.
Added on: 11-Jul-2003 Hits: 172
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Symantec Security Response (Hoaxes)
Description: Symantec Security Response uncovers hoaxes on a regular basis. These hoaxes usually arrive in the form of an email. Please disregard the hoax emails - they contain bogus warnings usually intent only on frightening or misleading users. The best course of action is to merely delete these hoax emails. Please refer to this page whenever you receive what appears to be a bogus message regarding a new virus, or promotion that sounds too good to be true.
Added on: 08-Jul-2003 Hits: 218
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Vmyths.com
Description: Learn about computer virus myths, hoaxes, urban legends, hysteria, and the implications if you believe in them. You can also search a list of computer virus hoaxes & virus hysteria from A to Z...............Be sure to kill their pop-under....when you fire up this site.....
Added on: 28-Mar-2002 Hits: 239
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