HOAXES

Below is a list of sites you can go to verfy if a warning you got is a real virus or a hoax.

http://sophos.com/virusinfo/hoaxes/
http://antivirus.about.com/library/blenhoax.htm
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/hoax.html
http://www.europe.f-secure.com/virus-info/hoax/
http://f-secure.com/hoaxes/hoax_new.shtml (top 50 hoaxes)
http://vil.mcafee.com/hoax.asp
http://www.snopes.com
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/
http://www.truthorfiction.com
http://www.breakthechain.com
http://www.erbanlegends.com
Here is a list of some of the latest hoaxes

  2002.05.10   jdbgmgr.exe virus hoax
               sulfnbk.exe
  2002.05.02   Money Transfer hoax
  2002.04.25   Cancer chain letter
  2002.04.22   Perfume hoax
  2002.04.17   Life is beatiful hoax
  2002.04.02   Microsft piracy letter
  2002.03.11   !0000 trick
  2002.02.19   Applebees Gift Certificate Gift Certificate hoax
  2002.02.18   Good Times

To read the problem hoaxes cause read this excellent article by reader Mary
http://antivirus.about.com/library/weekly/aa102300a.htm

Yet another to add to the list for non-computer related hoaxes is
http://urbanlegends.about.com
http://www.urbanlegends.com/ulz/