Computer Virus Hoaxes Urban Legends Literature

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• Top/Computers/Hacking/Malicious Software

• - Listing a number of famous virus hoaxes.
  
• - Checks virus warning messages against McAfee's virus hoax listings and virus information library.
  
• - Debunking common myths and misunderstandings regarding computer viruses.
  
• - Alphabetically organized descriptions of computer virus hoaxes, past and present.
  
• - Hoaxes, hooey, and hogwash as explained by Information Technology Division staff members at the University of Michigan.
  
• - Information and reviews of the top hoaxes on the Net.
  
• - Information source for new virus hoaxes and false alerts, with searchable virus and hoax description database.
  
• - Story about old computer virus hoaxes and how people still fall for them.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Hoaxes listed by name and type, with policy to help prevent hoaxes from spreading.
  
• - Presenting a simple generic system to aid in analyzing virus warnings and showing how to handle a false virus warning.
  
• - An email reality check for e-rumors, viruses, and internet hoaxes.
  
• - Searchable listing of hoax viruses and hoax Trojan programs.
  
• - List of links to online resources, including sections on computer viruses, hoaxes, misunderstandings and scams.
  
• - Humorous and occasionally sarcastic analysis of the rumor messages passed on Mirabilis's ICQ pager.
  
• - Explains virus hoaxes and what to do with them.
  
• - Uncovering hoaxes that usually arrive in the form of an email, or promotions that sound too good to be true.