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Internet
Hoaxes
V-Myths.com
"Learn about computer virus myths,
hoaxes, urban legends, and the implications if you
believe in them. You can also search a list of
computer virus hoaxes from A to Z."
This excellent site is professionally done by ROB
ROSENBERGER, an internationally recognized expert
on computer virus myths & hoaxes.
HoaxKill
"... was created to help you identify hoaxes
and to actively combat them...."
Hoax
Warnings
"This page is considered the industry
standard information source for new virus hoaxes
and false alerts."
"Hoax
warnings are typically scare alerts started by
malicious people - and passed on by innocent users
who think they are helping the community by
spreading the warning.
"Do not
forward hoax messages. We've seen cases where
e-mail systems have collapsed after dozens of
users forwarded a false alert to everybody in the
company. Corporate users can get rid of the hoax
problem by simply setting a strict company
guideline: End users must not forward virus
alarms. Ever. It's not the job of an end user
anyway. If such message is received, end users
could forward it to the IT department but not to
anyone else...."
"I
Swear It's All True" CNet's Favorite Net
Hoaxes
About.com's
A-Z List of Net Hoaxes & Rumors
| Hoaxbusters
(This excellent "official" site
is a joint venture of the Dept. of Energy
and the CIAC AKA Computer Incident
Advisory Capability) "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."
Hoaxbusters
provides a Site
Search Box as well as links to pages
which expose various types of hoaxes by
category:
Malicious
Code (Virus and Trojan ) Warnings
Urban
Myths
Give
Aways Stories about
giveaways by large companies
Inconsequential
Warnings
Sympathy
Letters and Requests to Help Someone
Traditional
Chain Letters
Threat
Chains
Scam
Chains
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Centers
for Disease Control's Page on Rumors, Hoaxes and
False Internet Reports
includes
Some
Commercial Virus and Hoax Warning Pages
50
Most Recent E-Mail Hoaxes from F-Secure and an
alphabetical
list of all known E-mail hoaxes. Everything
from fighting canaries to how to give your cat a
colonic!
IBM's
Virus and Hoax Alert Page
ICA.net's
Virus and Hoax Information
McAfee
Virus and Hoax Alert
Chain
Letters
Chain
Letters Central "is the home of the
most comprehensive collection of chain letters,
jokes, forwards, fake virus warnings, surveys,
petitions, cute little ASCII art, and every other
form of e-mail junk imaginable on the Internet -
complete with misspellings..."
Internet
Chain Letters
Chain
Letters An amazing collection of every
type of chain letter imaginable!
Chain
Letters Anonymous "You receive
an e-mail chain letter, and you know you
shouldn't forward it to ten of your friends:
they'll curse your name for clogging up their
mailboxes and for wasting Internet bandwidth. But
you don't want the bad karma that they say comes
from breaking the chain...
"At Chain
Letters Anonymous, we understand the anxiety
of breaking the chain. We want to help you
overcome "forward-button addiction" and
the superstitious intoxication that brings
computer networks to a crawl...." CLICK
HERE for the rest of the story.
The
Curse of a Thousand Chain Letters: An E-Mail House
of Horrors
Breaking
the Chain: The Truth About Chain Letters
Email
Folklore Homepage
Imposters
and People with Phony Identities Fake
Folks Imposters Choir
Boy or Con Man? Milli
Vanilli and the Scapegoating of the Inauthentic Con
Man Masquerades as Ex-Eagles Guitarist for 8 Years The
Man With 14 Aliases JMInc.com
is a great little "hoax site" that
will let you enter a portal to actually become
someone else! Appleton's
Cyclopedia of American Biography was
riddled with fake biographies written by a writer
who was paid by the inch! |
