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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]
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]
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]
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]
AOL moves to pacify user fears over hoax e-mail
News IT IS A HOAX. Bulkeley's mail to the AOL community said: "the contents of the email are completely false. Purporting to be "From a former AOL employee", the e-mail claimed AOL 4.0 would let AOL inspect users' hard drives for personal information.
[October 27, 1997, 10:47]
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]
Mobile Virus ACE-? - Is The Hoax That The Hoax Is The Hoax?
Blog Symantec supposedly researched/archived this as a hoax email back in 1999, but here we are in 2007 and the same message is floating around in full force again. Is The Hoax That The Hoax Is The Hoax? It seems that there may be some shred of truth to...
[June 8, 2007, 19:52]
Hoax porn site traps Scottish bank manager
News A Scottish bank manager has been placed on the Sex Offenders Register after a court convicted him of downloading more than 100 images of child pornography from a hoax Web site set up by US police. Paul Chalmers, 43, was charged for downloading...
[September 20, 2000, 10:33]
Virus hoax curtails Christmas fun
News Three shareware computer games -- ElfBowling, Frogapult, and Y2KGame -- have become the target of a virus hoax, according to anti-virus firms. The text of the hoax reads: Those worries were quickly dismissed online, but spread to the public...
[December 15, 1999, 10:03]
