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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. The JDBGMGR hoax has been at the top of the myth list for eight...
[January 3, 2003, 11:36]
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]
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 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. Bobbi Cassibo is one of many e-mail users who...
[June 1, 2001, 9:55]
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: As if there are not enough computer viruses, a Christmas Grinch has been...
[December 15, 1999, 10:03]
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]
Mobile Virus ACE-? - Is The Hoax That The Hoax Is The Hoax?
Blog Is The Hoax That The Hoax Is The Hoax? 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. It seems that there may be some shred of truth to...
[June 8, 2007, 19:52]
Virus Hoax Chart Makes Grim Reading
Talkback I paid for a yahoo ten pin championship bowling game by downloading it on the net.after the expiracy,i can no longer delete it on my computer.I check the support info for the ver 1.03212 but i can not find one
[August 2, 2004, 19:24]
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]
Worm Sneaks Ride With 1 June Hoax
News A hoax e-mail warning people that their PCs might contain a virus duped an untold number of people into deleting the sulfnbk.exe file from their hard drives last week. Rob Rosenberger, editor of virus information site Vmyths.com , says the quick...
[June 5, 2001, 8:44]
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]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog 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? Of course, it was the SULFNBK.EXE hoax email.
[June 1, 2001, 18:13]
Virus Hoaxes: What You Need To Know To Protect Your Network
White Papers Hoax writers have used this paranoia to spread false warnings, known as hoax warnings, and rely on people to pass them along. This paper talks about virus hoaxes, which could help readers to decide on the network protection policies.
[May 5, 2004, 1:03]
Top-10 Spam List: Still Gullible
News Another virus hoax doing the rounds warns users of a non-existent 'World Trade Center Survivor' virus. A well-crafted and convincing virus hoax can put unprecedented strain on companies' e-mail servers if enough staff are fooled into forwarding it...
[December 4, 2002, 7:58]
Bill Gates Ribbed By Hoax E-mail Circular
News This hoax is quite well done," said Rob Rosenberger, the Webmaster of the Computer Virus Myths Web site. This is the gist of a chain-letter hoax that appeared to start Tuesday. The hoax comes at the end of what has been a quiet year, according to...
[December 3, 1997, 12:53]
Y2K Hoax A 'serious Issue', Says Microsoft
News More information about the virus is available at www.microsoft.com/y2k/hoax/hoax2.htm. Another year 2000 email hoax is circulating the Internet, and it is being described by Microsoft as a "serious issue".
[September 17, 1999, 16:22]
Sorting Security Fact From Fiction
News Another clue that a warning is a hoax is that the claims of the virus's destructiveness are just too incredible. And rather than explain exactly how the virus causes this explosion, the hoax says only that "it's an extremely complicated process.
[April 11, 2006, 16:20]
AOL Users Hit By Bizarre Hoax
News This is a rumour perpetuating a hoax pretending to be a virus," D'Amato commented. 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...
[July 28, 1999, 8:32]
News Schmooze: Resurrected Daleks Hail New E-minister
News This started off as a rather arcane parody of an earlier virus hoax, and urged people to delete a harmful file on their system called "aol.exe". Of course, it turned out to be a hoax, and implanted the would-be voyeurs' PCs with a Trojan horse...
[June 15, 2001, 16:12]
Antivirus Virus On The Loose
News It is more usual to receive a hoax email claiming an existing, necessary file is a virus, such as the Jdbgmgr.exe hoax, which claims a file is a virus when it is really a debugger register for Java. However, occasionally, a virus contains a more...
[January 20, 2003, 9:23]
