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Links to Frauds, Hoaxes, Spam Prevention, Urban Legends, and Viruses!

McAfee Virus Information Library

The McAfee AVERT Virus Information Library has detailed information on where viruses come from, how they infect your system, and how to remove them. In addition to genuine viruses, the Virus Information Library contains useful information on virus hoaxes, those dire email warnings about disk-eating attachments that sometimes land in your inbox. A Virtual Card For You and SULFNBK are two of the best-known hoaxes, but there are many others. Next time you receive a well-meaning virus warning (unless it's from us, of course!), check our hoax page before you pass the message on to all your friends.

HOAXBUSTERS

In addition to describing hoaxes and chain letters found on the Internet, the site will discuss how to recognize hoaxes, what to do about them, and some of the history of hoaxes on the Internet.

ScamBusters.org

Dedicated to helping you protect yourself from clever scams -- online and offline! You'll find lots of great resources on how to avoid the most popular scams, viruses and urban legends making the rounds. Make sure you check out ScamBusters.org's Stop Spam link.

Symantec's comprehensive list of hoaxes

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.

Last Modified: Thursday, 11-Nov-2004 21:55:31 EST