These warnings always sound so official, often starting out with "IBM announced" or "CNN reported" or "Microsoft posted". But, many of them are just HOAXES. Try to investigate any and all warnings you receive to verify the threat. Any that are real dangers, of course forward on to any and all people you can reach and post on all your favorite boards, forums and newsgroups. If you investigate and find a hoax, please forward these links to any and all folks who forward warnings to you with a polite suggestion that they verify these warnings before flooding the internet with hoaxes. Hoax warnings can wreck havoc on e-mail servers just like a real virus. They jam communications with all the messages flying back and forth!!!!!!
Be considerate - verify FIRST!
- This is a GREAT site for verifying current myths or hoaxs...also they post real virus dangers.
http://kumite.com/myths/home.htm
- This is another page of the site above where you can check an alphabletical list for warnings forwarded to you.
http://kumite.com/myths/myths/
- This goes to the MAIN PAGE at CNN. It is a great news page!
http://cnn.com
Or go to CNN Interactive - Computing for all kinds of computer news stories, polls and interesting articles.
http://cnn.com/TECH/computing
- This is where the IBM Corp. posts alerts. If someone claims that IBM announced something it will be HERE or be a hoax!!!
http://www.av.ibm.com/BreakingNews/VirusAlert/
- This is McAffee Network site listing current virus alerts. They also have hoaxes near the bottom.
http://www.avertlabs.com/public/datafiles/valerts/
- Mining Co...Good site to check out those hoaxes, myths, legends and other lies that flood the internet & e-mails!
- SOPHOS - Another interesting site to verify warnings. They posted Cherynoble waaaayyyy before McAffee back in March!
http://www.us.sophos.com/virusinfo/
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