Virus / AntiVirus / and Hoax References

Updated 2001-01-12

1. A Real Y2K virus as an email attachment purporting to be from Microsoft (with McAfee remarks and removal instructions, following text of actual email)
2. Same Y2K virus with different details, program analysis

3. Tips To Detect Hoaxes
4. TruthOrFiction.com
5. Stiller Research Hoaxes index
6. Snopes - Urban Legends Reference Pages
7. Snopes - Currently Circulating Stories
8. Internet Scams (Snopes)
9. UrbanLegends.com (use Search feature)
10. (another) Urban Legends and Folklore site
11. False Authority Syndrome - Computer Viruses &c.
12. Home Business Scams (was here)

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13. Inoculate IT - FREE Personal Antivirus Software (Computer Associates)
14. Symantec AntiVirus research Center
15. McAfee.com: Virus Information Center
16. Data Fellows Virus Information Center
17. Network Associates - Virus Library Index
18. Network Associates - Virus Alerts (also index to a few hoaxes)
19. Yahoo - Index to many Real and Hoax virus info sites
20. Deja News - search for virus if not in the above

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21. Office Update - Word Macro Virus Alert
22. CERT - Computer Emergency Response Team
23. FBI - Federal Bureau of Investigation
24. CIAC - Computer Incident Advisory Capability
25. NIPC - National Infrastructure Protection Center, and the FBI.