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Information about hoaxes, chain letters, urban myths and other bogus information
being routed around the internet.
Privacy and Legal Notice Welcome to the CIAC Hoax Pages Last modified: 09/02/05 You are the 21483546th visitor to the CIAC Internet Hoax and Chain Letter pages since February 1995
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
In addition to describing hoaxes and chain letters found on the Internet, we will discuss how to, what to do about them, and some of the history of hoaxes on the Internet
Users are requested to please not spread chain letters and hoaxes by sending copies to everyone you know
You can still submit your hoaxes to:
Vmyths.com- Truth About Computer Virus Myths & Hoaxes
Computer virus myths, hoaxes, urban beliefs, hysteria, and the implications of
believing in them, with historical data, theories on the spread of virus myths, ...
Welcome To Vmyths.com 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
Sophos describes hoaxes
Hoaxes listed by name and type, with policy to help prevent hoaxes from spreading.
Search our site Hoaxes Hoaxes 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 to assist companies and individuals
Although we do provide information about some non-virus-related hoaxes, chain letters, scams and misunderstandings, the primary aim of this section of the website is to provide information about hoaxes which are virus-related
By hoax name Please select the first character of the name: By hoax type Sophos suggests a to help prevent hoaxes from spreading in your company
Hoax Warnings
Information source for new virus hoaxes and false alerts, with searchable virus
and hoax description database.
info: COMPUTER VIRUS HOAX
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F-Secure Virus Information Centre
A searchable database of virus descriptions, from the provider of F-Secure range
of anti-virus software.
This site was the first anti-virus web site ever - and is considered the industry standard source for up-to-date information on new viruses and hoax alerts
Security Response - Symantec Corp.
Virus Encyclopedia site maintained by Symantec, makers of the popular Norton
AntiVirus product.
US DOE-CIAC (Computer Incident Advisory Capability) Website
CIAC publishes security bulletins and virus and hoax information. They provide
computer security assistance to US Department of Energy (DOE) sites.
Korova Multimedia Hoax du Jour (home page)
Regular commentary on the phenomena of misinformation and hoaxes on the Internet.
Special attention to chain e-mail, 'Net rumors, scams, and hoaxes.
Hoax from the past: Welcome to the home page of the 'Hoax du Jour.' are as popular as ever
It's yet another sick and futile hoax
Got a new e-mail from a friend or coworker, and it smells fishy? Before you forward it, check here first: ¬ Check in the topic of the Hoax du Jour Forums for the latest hoax reports (you can also ) ¬ ¬ Review the of common names and phrases ¬ Search the columns for any keyword or name ..
What is the 'Hoax du Jour?' The "Hoax du Jour" is a recurring column providing updated information and commentary on the Internet community
It is a feature of Korova Multimedia's What is a "hoax du jour?" With the advent of widespread use of the Internet as a medium for sharing information, the phenomenon of sharing misinformation has exploded
This page is dedicated to discussing intentional misinformation , or 'Net hoaxes
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The Deadly AOL.exe Virus Reports on how a joke took on a life of its own, and lots of AOL users deleted
the sulfnbk.exe file from their hard drive.
In late May / early June 2001, there was a hoax concerning the 'sulfnbk.exe' 'virus'
The Crypt Newsletter
Crypt Newsletter: An in depth journalistic expose of the computer virus underground,
netwar, law and disorder, freedom of speech, and security.
The history and final disposition of the Internet's formost virus hoax site, Vmyths
will be fought with virus hoaxes and electromagnetic pulse guns
Air Force advisor bites into Gulf War virus hoax
Virus or Hoax?
Created to provide basic information about viruses. Links to major anti-virus
companies, public services, software downloads, and updates.
The World Wide Web pages of 'Virus or Hoax?' are created to give you basic information about viruses, hoaxes, Trojan horses, macro viruses and Internet related viruses, such as worms and email bombs
COMPUTER VIRUS HOAX ?
Panda Software's Anti-Virus Glossary
A glossary with brief descriptions of technical terms related to computer viruses
and antivirus programs.
Ol Buffalo Computer Humor Page
Collection of computer jokes.
The Gullibility Virus, as it is called, apparently makes people believe and forward copies of silly hoaxes relating to cookie recipes, email viruses, taxes on modems, and get-rich-quick schemes [perhaps conspiracy theories should be included here]
After all, there were dozens of other recipients on the mail header, so I thought the virus must be true." It was a long time, the victim said, before she could stand up at a Hoaxees Anonymous meeting and state, "My name is Jane, and I've been hoaxed." Now, however, she is spreading the word
Most hoaxes, legends, and tall tales have been widely discussed and exposed by the Internet community
Courses in critical thinking are also widely available, and there is online help from many sources, including Those people who are still symptom free can help inoculate themselves against the Gullibility Virus by reading some good material on evaluating sources, such as Lastly, as a public service, Internet users can help stamp out the Gullibility Virus by sending copies of this message to anyone who forwards them a hoax
Apocgraphy - Full Spectrum email Protection - Anti spam, Hoax ...
Software that works with a current e-mail reader, analyzing e-mail and protecting
against a full range spam, hoaxes, viruses and privacy hazards.
Cyndi's List - Internet Stuff You Need to Know
List of links to online resources, including sections on computer viruses, hoaxes,
misunderstandings and scams.
There are a lot of misconceptions, rumors, hoaxes and other bits of misinformation floating about
Do not believe most virus stories that you read as many are merely hoaxes and myths
    Virus hoaxes and urban legends, real computer viruses, other virus information sites
  Information on the latest Internet chain letters, junk e-mail & hoaxes
Gullibility Virus Warning
A spoof intended to educate new Internet users about thinking before forwarding
virus hoaxes and urban legends.
The Gullibility Virus, as it is called, apparently makes people believe and forward copies of silly hoaxes relating to cookie recipes, email viruses, taxes on modems, and get-rich-quick schemes
After all, there were dozens of other recipients on the mail header, so I thought the virus must be true.' It was a long time, the victim said, before she could stand up at a Hoaxees Anonymous meeting and state, 'My name is Jane, and I've been hoaxed.' Now, however, she is spreading the word
Most hoaxes, legends, and tall tales have been widely discussed and exposed by the Internet community
Courses in critical thinking are also widely available, and there is online help from many sources, including For Virus hoaxes: at http://www.vmyths.com at http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/hoax.html at http://www.europe.f-secure.com/hoaxes/hoax_index.shtml at http://vil.mcafee.com/hoax.asp For Urban Legends: at http://www.snopes.com at http://urbanlegends.about.com at http://www.cdc.gov/hoax_rumors.htm at http://www.scambusters.org/legends.html at http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_cul.htm For General Hoaxes, Scams, Spam, Email Chain Letters, etc
Fraud Bureau - Hoaxes Pocus
Information and reviews of the top hoaxes on the Net.
Hoaxes Pocus Everyone is aware that computer viruses are dangerous
However, there are more computer virus hoaxes than computer viruses which do not infect systems, but require time to determine whether they are hoaxes or true viruses
If you receive a computer virus hoax don't send it onward, but delete it
If you are an employee in a company, tell your systems administrator who can then let others know in your company of the hoax so that it will not be resent to others
From time to time we set out below hoaxes that we become aware of
If you receive a hoax in your email box, let us know and we will post some of them here to warn others and hope to stop the chain from continuing
If you have any questions about this hoax, contact Mikko Hypponen: Mikko.Hypponen@datafellows.com Frog in Blender, Fish The 'Frog Blender' and 'Fish' applications are created with Shockwave Flash and present user-controlled animations
These 2 viruses are NOT found in the HOAX list
Hallmark Greeting Card hoax The hoax message looks like this: The subject was: 'Tag' and the message body is: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If Life is a waste of time, & time is a waste of life, then let's all get wasted together and have the time of our lives
Virus Avoidance Advice from Burton Systems Software
Advice for avoiding and recovering from computer virus infections, mostly for
users of Microsoft Windows. Includes links to many free tools and other resources.
(Symantec/Norton) (McAfee/NAI) (F-Secure) (Trend Micro) (Sophos) (Kaspersky) (Cat Computer Services) (Computer Associates) Sophos also has an excellent 'virus prevention primer, ' here: These three sites have a lot of excellent information about viruses, virus hoaxes, anti-virus tools, etc.: The FBI, Stiller Research, nsclean.com , and Georgi Guninski sites also have information about computer security issues: (FBI) Note: Determining the source of a virus or worm-laden email can be tricky
Steve rates Windows firewalls here: and virus hoaxes.) In fact, almost all emails which ask you to forward them on to lots of other people are untrue
Most are pure hoaxes, a few are partially true, and almost none are entirely true
If you receive any message that asks you to forward it on to lots of other people, you can be almost certain that it is a hoax or a scam
I've seem 'em all: the virus warnings, the Proctor and Gamble smears, the lost or dying child heartstring- tuggers, the MLM scams, the Madaline Murray O'Hair / FCC story, the internet tax hoaxes, etc., etc.
Lindsey Yeskoo about President Bush's personal prayer request which he shared with her when she met him briefly in Shanghai in October, 2001; the 3rd was from an Amnesty International affiliate about the stoning sentence of a Nigerian woman named Amina Lawal .) Usually, the easiest way to verify that email chain-letters are untrue is to look for them on one of the 'hoax buster' web sites
TU-Berlin * Hoax-Info Service
Die Webseite der TU Berlin beschreibt die Wirkungsweise von Hoaxes und gibt Tipps
zum Umgang damit.
Fragen zu Hoaxes, Kettenbriefen, Viren: Suchen nach: Hoax-Info Service Über Computer-Viren, die keine sind (sog
"Hoaxes") und andere Falschmeldungen und Gerüchte Inhalt: Aktuelle Extra-Blätter: Viren/Malware: Hoaxes und Kettenbriefe: angebl
Diese Warnungen werden Hoaxes genannt ( engl
hoax, altengl
Zu den wirtschaftlichen Schäden durch Hoaxes lesen Sie bitte auch den auf der im September 1998
Welche Hoaxes sind bekannt? D ie Zahl der Hoaxes ist nicht gering, die meisten sind letztlich nur Nachahmungen ("copycats") des ersten dokumentierten Hoax "GoodTimes"
Folgende sind erwiesenermaßen Hoaxes (ohne Anspruch auf Vollständigkeit): [ ] Eine vollständige Liste kann hier leider nicht wiedergegeben werden
Es stellt sich zudem die Frage, welche dieser Hoaxes wirklich in Deutschland kursieren, diese kann jedoch nicht abschliessend beantwortet werden
Wie erkenne ich einen Hoax? Der Adressat wird aufgefordert, die "Warnung" an möglichst viele Menschen weiterzuleiten
Es werden generell nie echte, offizielle Virus- Warnungen als Kettenbriefe in die weite Welt geschickt, das sind alles Hoaxes! Bitte werfen Sie auch mal einen Blick auf das
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