Pietenpol-List: Virus Hoaxes
Posted: Thu Aug 19, 1999 9:05 am
Original Posted By: Leo Powning
John,The Symantec Corp site http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/is an encyclopedia of real and hoax viruses. The majority of virus reports are hoaxes but the initiator has achieved his aimby getting others to disseminate the hoax. A quick lookup of the Symantec site resolves whether a virus alert is genuine ora hoax.Cheers,Leo--On Sat, 14 Aug 1999 07:09:02 Pat Panzera wrote:>Please do not pass along virus warnings with out checking it out.>It's as simple as pulling up your favorite search engine, and>typing in the name of the virus along with the word 'hoax'. You'll>end up getting somehing like this:>>http://www.stiller.com/wobbler.htm>>john scott wrote:>>> New Virus!!!!>> >> >>>> >>> >> >>>> >>> >> >>>> > It will arrive on e-mail titled CALIFORNIA.>> >> >>>> >>> >> >>>> > IBM and AOL have announced that it is very powerful, more so than>> >> >>>> > Melissa, there is no remedy. It will eat all your information on>> >> >>>> > the hard drive and also destroys Netscape Navigator and Microsoft>> >> >>>> > Internet Explorer.>--== Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ ==--Share what you know. Learn what you don't.________________________________________________________________________________
John,The Symantec Corp site http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/is an encyclopedia of real and hoax viruses. The majority of virus reports are hoaxes but the initiator has achieved his aimby getting others to disseminate the hoax. A quick lookup of the Symantec site resolves whether a virus alert is genuine ora hoax.Cheers,Leo--On Sat, 14 Aug 1999 07:09:02 Pat Panzera wrote:>Please do not pass along virus warnings with out checking it out.>It's as simple as pulling up your favorite search engine, and>typing in the name of the virus along with the word 'hoax'. You'll>end up getting somehing like this:>>http://www.stiller.com/wobbler.htm>>john scott wrote:>>> New Virus!!!!>> >> >>>> >>> >> >>>> >>> >> >>>> > It will arrive on e-mail titled CALIFORNIA.>> >> >>>> >>> >> >>>> > IBM and AOL have announced that it is very powerful, more so than>> >> >>>> > Melissa, there is no remedy. It will eat all your information on>> >> >>>> > the hard drive and also destroys Netscape Navigator and Microsoft>> >> >>>> > Internet Explorer.>--== Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ ==--Share what you know. Learn what you don't.________________________________________________________________________________