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We'll try to keep you up to date, more informed and less paranoid about viruses and how best to deal with them in the event you are infected. <:_[
We'll also let you know of the many hoaxes that continue to circulate and flood your email in box, and what you should do about them. Follow this link to see if the one that dropped into your email in box is on the hoax list.
Can't find the one you were told was a virus. Guess what then, it must be yet another HOAX. Keep reading. Or drop us an email about it at virus alert info and we'll get back to you.
Some of these date back a couple of years and continue to be circulated with modifications so keep vegilant and don't waste yours or any one elses mail box space by forwarding a forwarded HOAX. Remember, passing on messages about these hoaxes only serves to further propagate them.
Click here to know what to look out for in typical hoax warnings.
Not sure which are hoaxes, check below.
Virus Hoaxes
- Let's Watch TV
- CELCOM Screensaver Hoax
- Is Sandman's (or anyone else's) page dangerous?
- Lump of Coal Virus Hoax
- Windows will Fail on Jan 1 Hoax
- How to give a cat a colonic? is just another hoax (sometimes combined with WOBBLER).
- California/WOBBLER is yet another virus hoax.
- Free PC from IBM -- just another hoax!
- Announced this morning from IBM!.
- Bug's Life screen-saver
- Microsoft Will Not Pay You To Forward This Note. -- another chain letter
- Free anything --Get real, ther are no free lunches! Read more here
- PICTURE.EXE, SHOW.EXE, WHATEVER.EXE: if it's suspect, don't run it!
- "It Takes Guts to Say 'Jesus'" is just another hoax message that has found its way into the netstream.
- Are my web pages infected? The "HTML Virus" is no danger.
- Bloat virus not only doesn't infect MP3 music, it doesn't even exist.
- New Warning-Floods: Bud Frogs & Buddy Lists
- ELVIRA
- WIN A HOLIDAY -- Just another hoax!
- ANANAS and SCRIPT.INI: Should you care?
- The HAGIS/PANTS virus threat on Yahoo is just a hoax.
- Snoopy cookies in AOL version 4 just a rumor.
- "The RETURNED MAIL Hoax" has found its way into our mailbox.
- "Join the Crew" is yet another virus hoax being passed around the Internet.
- Warnings about an AOL4FREE virus are false.
A list compiled by Norton
- Discount Hoax
- Lotus Notes Worm Hoax
- $800 from Microsoft Hoax
- 3b Trojan (alias PKZIP Virus)
- AIDS Hoax
- AOL4Free Virus Hoax
- AOL Flashing 'IM' Hoax
- AOL RIOT 2 Virus Hoax
- AOL Year 2000 Update Hoax
- Baby New Year Virus Hoax
- Bad Times Hoax
- Be My Valentine Hoax
- Blue Mountain Virus Hoax
- Blueballs Are Underrated Virus Hoax
- BUDDYLST.ZIP
- BUDSAVER.EXE
- Budweiser Hoax
- BUGGLST Hoax
- California IBM
- California Virus Hoax
- CELLSAVER Virus Hoax
- D@Fit
- Dear Friends Hoax
- Death69
- Deeyenda
- Desi1love Hoax
- Despite Virus Hoax
- E-Flu
- EVIL THE CAT Virus Hoax
- FatCat Virus Hoax
- Flashmaster G
- Flower for You
- FREE M & M's Hoax
- Free Money
- Free Pizza Virus Hoax
- FROGAPULT, ELFBOWL, Y2KGAME Virus Hoax
- GAP Email Tracking Hoax
- Get More Money Hoax
- Ghost
- Gift from Microsoft Hoax
- Girl Thing
- Good Times
- Guts to Say Jesus Hoax
- Hacky Birthday Virus Hoax
- Halloween Virus Hoax
- Happy New Year Virus Hoax
- Hairy Palms Virus Hoax
- Help Poor Dog Hoax
- Hitler Hoax
- How to Give a Cat a Colonic Hoax
- INFILTER Hoax
- Information on SARC 'Virus Test' Hoax
- Irina
- Jan1st20.exe Virus Hoax
- John Kennedy Jr Trojan Hoax
- Join the Crew
- Let's Watch TV Hoax
- Londhouse Virus Hoax
- Lump of Coal Virus Hoax
- Matrix Virus Hoax
- Microsoft Virus Hoax
- Millennium Time Bomb
- MOBILE PHONE Hoax
- NASTYFRIEND99 Hoax
- Norman Virus Hoax
- Norton anti - virus v5 Hoax
- Pandemic Hoax
- Penpal Greetings
- Perrin.exe Virus Hoax
- Phantom Menace Virus Hoax
- Pluperfect Hoax
- Red Alert
- Returned or Unable to Deliver
- Sandman Hoax
- South Park News Letter Hoax
- Teletubbies
- Time Bomb
- Tuxissa Hoax
- Very Cool
- Virtual Card Virus Hoax
- Virus Business
- Win a Holiday
- Windows will Fail on Jan 1 Hoax
- Wobbler Virus Hoax
- Wooden Horse Hoax
- Work Virus Hoax
- World Domination Hoax
- Y2K7 Virus Hoax
- Yellow Teletubbies
- Zlatko
- ZZ331 Virus Hoax
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Free my ???
More of a list of so called "if you send this to all your friends email" to watch out for.
Honda is *NOT* going to give you a free car for forwarding an email message to all of your friends.
The newly merged Microsoft and AOL is *NOT* going to give you money for forwarding an email message to all of your friends [and, even sillier, not only have Microsoft and AOL *NOT* merged -- US antitrust laws would prohibit such a merger -- but Microsoft and AOL are BITTER ENEMIES!]
No one is actually going to "hop on the Bus" if you forward this email message to three of your friends.
Old Navy is *NOT* going to give you a free $25 gift card for forwarding an email message to all of your friends.
M&M's is *NOT* going to give you a free case of M&Ms for forwarding an email message to all of your friends.
Abercrombie & Fitch is *NOT* going to give you a free gift certificate for forwarding an email message to all of your friends.
The Gap is *NOT* going to give you free cargo pants and Hawaiian shirts for forwarding an email message to all of your friends.
IBM is *NOT* going to give you a free computer for forwarding an email message to all of your friends.
Microsoft is *NOT* going to give you free money for forwarding an email message to all of your friends.
Microsoft is also *NOT* going to give you a free copy of Windows 98 for forwarding an email message to all of your friends.
Microsoft and Disney are *NOT* going to give you a free trip to Disney World for forwarding an email message to all of your friends.
Nike is *NOT* going to give you free shoes for forwarding an email message to all of your friends.
The Guinness Book of World Records is *NOT* going to add your name to their book for forwarding an email message to all of your friends.
Some billionaire is *NOT* going to make a donation to a dying child in return for your forwarding an email message to all of your friends. Some cancer or disease society is *NOT* going to make a donation to a dying child in return for your forwarding an email message to all of your friends.
Some stranger is not going to magically cause a really neat movie to pop-up on your screen in return for your forwarding an email message to all of your friends.
What the continuing theme in all of the above - someone is going to give you something as long as you forward an email message to all of your friends? Time to get with it and get real.
What should you do if you receive an "email forwarding" message that doesn't appear on our list? Should you forward the message to all of your friends on the off chance that it just might be true? Of course not. Regardless of how the message is written, it is still a hoax.
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