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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. Hoax emails also often attribute information to MSN, AOL, Microsoft, CNN...
[May 30, 2001, 17:03]
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]
Hoax e-mail hits AOL
News The E-mail is a hoax, as announced by a number of technical mistakes in its language and the melodramatic way it tells its story. Such incidents add to the public's concerns about Internet security, and hoax E-mails draw on that fear in their...
[October 8, 1997, 11:06]
RIAA calls hacking claim a hoax
News It's a complete hoax," said an RIAA spokesman, who asked that his name not be used. Claims that the music industry hired a group of hackers to create a worm to infect peer-to-peer networks are being dismissed by security experts.
[January 15, 2003, 7:56]
Virus hoax chart makes grim reading
News The original version of this hoax claims that this file is a virus spread by MSN Messenger, while a later version claims that deleting it will remove the Bugbear-A worm from a system. This email was identified as being deceptive as far back as...
[January 3, 2003, 11:36]
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]
Jesux hoax uncovered
News Jesux, the so-called Linux distribution for Christians, has been revealed to be a hoax. At almost midnight Wednesday, the still-anonymous author of the Jesux page came clean, posting a note that acknowledged the hoax.
[September 30, 1999, 11:14]
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]
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]
Virus hoax dupes users into destroying files
News An e-mail hoax posing as a virus advisory is surfing across the Internet on a wave of PC user naivete. The hoax has been forwarded by users who believe they have been infected and need to tell other victims to clean out the virus.
[May 17, 2002, 8:19]
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]
Bill Gates ribbed by hoax e-mail circular
News This is the gist of a chain-letter hoax that appeared to start Tuesday. This hoax is quite well done," said Rob Rosenberger, the Webmaster of the Computer Virus Myths Web site. The hoax comes at the end of what has been a quiet year, according to...
[December 3, 1997, 12:53]
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]
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]
Virus hoax targets Napster users
News A hoax virus warning is circulating on the Internet, threatening computer users who have downloaded unauthorised music from the Web that their PCs will go haywire on American Independence Day, later this week.
[July 2, 2001, 12:13]
'Most popular homepage ever' denounced as a hoax
News A personal home page that shot to cult popularity around the Internet, featuring a slightly over-amorous and grammatically bewildered but well-meaning Turkish gentleman, has apparently been denounced as a hoax by its now famous central character.
[November 9, 1999, 10:46]
AOL users hit by bizarre hoax
News The "AOL Year 2000 Update" hoax e-mail even includes a copy of the scam message it is supposedly warning against. It says your billing cycle was up and they need more info," the hoax e-mail warns. This is a rumour perpetuating a hoax pretending to...
[July 28, 1999, 8:32]
News Burst: MS warns against Y2K hoax
News The e-mail, which contains a message from Tom Chandler, begins "Dear registered Microsoft customer, we have compiled a program to test and fix the issues related to the year 2000 change" and contains an attachment.
[July 12, 1999, 10:32]
AOL moves to pacify user fears over hoax e-mail
News IT IS A HOAX. 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. Bulkeley's mail to the AOL community said: "the contents of the email are completely false.
[October 27, 1997, 10:47]
