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• Computers: Hacking: Malicious Software  (14)
• Computers: Internet: Abuse  (112)
• Computers: Security: Malicious Software: Viruses  (121)
• Recreation: Humor: Computer  (232)
• Society: Issues: Fraud: Internet  (63)

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• Vmyths   - Computer virus myths, hoaxes, urban beliefs, hysteria, and the implications of believing in them, with historical data, theories on the spread of virus myths, and descriptions of popular virus misconceptions.

  About.com: Hoax Information Center - Alphabetically organized descriptions of computer virus hoaxes, past and present..

  Cyndi's List of Internet Stuff You Need to Know - List of links to online resources, including sections on computer viruses, hoaxes, misunderstandings and scams..

  The Deadly AOL.exe Virus - Reports on how a joke took on a life of its own, and lots of AOL users deleted the sulfnbk.exe file from their hard drive..

  Fraud Bureau - Hoaxes Pocus - Information and reviews of the top hoaxes on the Net..

  Hoax Warnings - Information source for new virus hoaxes and false alerts, with searchable virus and hoax description database..

  Hoaxes and Scares - Hoaxes listed by name and type, with policy to help prevent hoaxes from spreading..

  How to Spot a Virus Hoax - Presenting a simple generic system to aid in analyzing virus warnings and showing how to handle a false virus warning..

  Indiana University Knowledge Base - Listing a number of famous virus hoaxes..

  Lies, Damn Lies and ICQ Messages - Humorous and occasionally sarcastic analysis of the rumor messages passed on Mirabilis's ICQ pager..

  Symantec: Hoaxes - Uncovering hoaxes that usually arrive in the form of an email, or promotions that sound too good to be true..

  Trend Micro Hoax Encyclopedia - Searchable listing of hoax viruses and hoax Trojan programs..

  Truth Or Fiction - An email reality check for e-rumors, viruses, and internet hoaxes..

  Virus Bulletin: Hoaxes - [Requires Free Registration] Explains virus hoaxes and what to do with them..

  Virus Busters - Hoaxes, hooey, and hogwash as explained by Information Technology Division staff members at the University of Michigan..

  The Register - The Persistence of Hoax - Story about old computer virus hoaxes and how people still fall for them. (July 14, 2003).