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Cyndi's List of Internet Stuff You Need to Know
List of links to online resources, including sections on computer viruses, hoaxes, misunderstandings and scams.
http://www.cyndislist.com/internet.htm
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Fraud Bureau - Hoaxes Pocus
Information and reviews of the top hoaxes on the Net.
http://www.fraudbureau.com/articles/misc/article1.html
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Hoax Warnings
Information source for new virus hoaxes and false alerts, with searchable virus and hoax description database.
http://www.F-Secure.com/virus-info/
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How to Spot a Virus Hoax
Presenting a simple generic system to aid in analyzing virus warnings and showing how to handle a false virus warning.
http://researchweb.watson.ibm.com/antivirus/SciPapers/Wells/HOWTOSPOT/howtospot.html
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Lies, Damn Lies and ICQ Messages
Humorous and occasionally sarcastic analysis of the rumor messages passed on Mirabilis's ICQ pager.
http://diamond-back.com/icqlies.html
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Symantec: Hoaxes
Uncovering hoaxes that usually arrive in the form of an email, or promotions that sound too good to be true.
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/hoax.html
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The Deadly AOL.exe Virus
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.
http://www.jokeaday.com/7aolexe.shtml
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The Register - The Persistence of Hoax
Story about old computer virus hoaxes and how people still fall for them.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/07/14/the_persistence_of_hoax/
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Truth Or Fiction
An email reality check for e-rumors, viruses, and internet hoaxes.
http://www.truthorfiction.com/
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Vmyths
Computer virus myths, hoaxes, urban beliefs, hysteria, and the implications of believing in them, with historical data, theories on the spread of virus myths, and descriptions of popular virus misconceptions.
http://www.vmyths.com/
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