Internet Hoaxes & Urban Legends

Hoaxes, Viruses, & Urban Legends abound on the Internet. When you get email imploring you to "save a dying child by forwarding it to everyone you know", "delete without opening", "win a trip", or "win money" check it out at one of these sites BEFORE you pass it on. Perpetuating the hoax by passing it on to others without verifying the information helps the prankster create disruption and panic, and can cause others to either pass on the hoax or spend time tracking down the truth. Virus hoaxes cost millions of dollars annually in time spent, resources devoted to virus detection and defense, and bandwidth utilized flooding the Internet with useless and harmful email.

Learn to use the Internet responsibly and don't perpetuate hoaxes!

Current Internet Hoaxes-Urban Legends & Folklore http://urbanlegends.miningco.com/library/blhoax.htm

Mining Company is a network of comprehensive Web sites for over 500 topics. One of the easiest to use resource when checking and hoaxes.

CIAC Internet Hoaxes http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACHoaxes.html

Computer Incident Advisory Capability - U.S. Dept. of Energy -- Has pages for Hoaxes, Viruses, Chain Letters, etc. I have it set to open to the Hoaxes page, but be sure to check out Chain Letters page, also. A very comprehensive government source, but not the easiest to use....

 

Computer Virus Hoaxes - The Police Notebook http://www.ou.edu/oupd/vhoac.htm

University of Oklahoma Department of Public Safety

 

Computer Virus Myths home page http://kumite.com/myths/myths/

A private home page very well laid out. Wealth of information

 

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Updated 06/17/2005