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Hoax email goads users into deleting harmless files
News A hoax email warning people that their PCs may contain a virus called sulfnbk.exe -- that will be triggered on 1 June -- seems to be propagating as a result of mass hysteria. Whereas email worms mass mail themselves and cause destruction, this hoax...
[May 30, 2001, 17:03]
Man charged with iPod email hoax
News The denial of service attack saw the Cambridgeshire police switchboard flooded with calls last week, after a hoax email told recipients their credit cards had been charged £399.95 for an iPod player and encouraged users to call a 'customer service...
[December 9, 2003, 16:00]
Scottish law firm hit by malicious email hoax
News A Scottish law firm is counting the cost of a damaging hoax email that someone has sent to thousands of addresses, purporting to be from a prominent partner at the firm who promises to be a "ruthless bastard" and "screw the opposition" on behalf...
[March 7, 2003, 15:56]
Hoax email virus victims seek fix
News A hoax e-mail warning people that their PCs might contain a virus tricked an untold number of people into deleting a beneficial Windows application -- and now they're scrambling to get it back. They have also listed the hoax on a site that updates...
[June 1, 2001, 9:55]
Mobile phone virus hoax on the loose
News A new email hoax has appeared, preying on fears over mobile phone security, anti-virus vendor Sophos said Friday. Nevertheless, says Cluley, a hoax can be almost as disruptive and inconvenient as the real thing.
[June 23, 2000, 12:34]
Y2K hoax a 'serious issue', says Microsoft
News Another year 2000 email hoax is circulating the Internet, and it is being described by Microsoft as a "serious issue". More information about the virus is available at www.microsoft.com/y2k/hoax/hoax2.htm.
[September 17, 1999, 16:22]
Don't panic over Virtual Card virus alert
News Computer users who receive an email warning of a "Virtual Card" virus should ignore it, as antivirus experts are confident it is a hoax. This email message is just a hoax, and we has not received any report of a user's hard drive being erased for...
[April 27, 2001, 13:25]
Safeway investigates security after bogus emails
News According to a Safeway spokeswoman, the email hoax was sent out on Friday to "less than three thousand" of the company's Internet customers. High street supermarket Safeway is investigating a possible online security breach after hundreds of...
[August 14, 2000, 13:54]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Of course, it was the SULFNBK.EXE hoax email. You do know that virus hoax emails are common? You do know that if you type 'virus hoax' into any search engine you'll find a list in seconds, which includes what you've just got?
[June 1, 2001, 18:13]
MSN: Hotmail 'forwarding' message a hoax
News Official word from MSN Malaysia's country manager, Niko Walraven, was that the company was aware of the hoax email. If we ever need to contact our member base, we'll do so directly; unlike this recent email hoax, which relies on customers...
[August 23, 2001, 10:07]
Lycos denies attack on zombie army
News The company said that email reports that contained an apparent mirror image of the Web site when it was hacked were a hoax generated by the spammers. This is a hoax," said Malte Pollmann, director of communication services for Lycos.
[December 1, 2004, 12:50]
2001: Email misdemeanours
News A matter of days later, a London law firm was reprimanded for circulating a hoax email announcing the murder of a company secretary. A trainee solicitor based in the Hong Kong office admitted to concocting the hoax and faced disciplinary action...
[December 31, 2001, 6:31]
Virus hoax chart makes grim reading
News This email was identified as being deceptive as far back as Summer 2001, but it appears many users still haven't got the message about this hoax, or indeed many others. The original version of this hoax claims that this file is a virus spread by...
[January 3, 2003, 11:36]
News Schmooze: Resurrected Daleks hail new e-minister
News Of course, it turned out to be a hoax, and implanted the would-be voyeurs' PCs with a Trojan horse called SubSeven. This started off as a rather arcane parody of an earlier virus hoax, and urged people to delete a harmful file on their system...
[June 15, 2001, 16:12]
'Murder' email lands lawyers in trouble
News The law firm has confirmed that the hoax was concocted by a trainee solicitor in its Hong Kong office. A bogus email from a London law firm announcing the murder of a company secretary has resulted in four employees facing disciplinary action.
[March 23, 2001, 13:49]
Sobig.F prevention and cure
Talkback Was Sent Email to today.with RE Thankyou but did not open attachment or it did not have one .is it a hoax. Is computer safe I deleted staright away also have norton security but still worried.
[August 25, 2003, 22:00]
Prime minister gets email - but don't expect a reply
News During his campaign, Ireland created a hoax email address [tony-blair@prime-minister.co.uk] and sent messages to MPs asking for baby name suggestions. According to the site, individual emails will not receive a reply -- apart from an automated...
[August 21, 2003, 13:00]
Virus alerts: one sublime, one ridiculous
News Seperately, ZDNet offices received yet another hoax email claiming a virus is embedded in an email with the subject line "Win a Holiday". The email went on to claim the warning originated from Microsoft.
[November 11, 1998, 13:00]
Manchester police call for backup after cyberattack
News The customer service number turned out to be the switchboard at Cambridgeshire police, which was deluged with thousands of calls from people who had received the hoax email, although the culprit was eventually tracked down and arrested.
[July 12, 2005, 17:25]
Bogus Microsoft bulletins closed down
News The two bogus bulletins -- complete with software patches and links to a hoax Web site -- were discovered on 10 July. The first virus, nicknamed W32.Pet_Tick.G, arrives as an email with the message, "This is a fix against I-Worm.Magistr.
[July 18, 2001, 16:38]
