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Re: [OM] Virus Warning is A Hoax

Subject: Re: [OM] Virus Warning is A Hoax
From: Garth Wood <garth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 07:53:34 -0600
At 09:21 PM 16/10/2002 -0700, you wrote:
See the URL below.

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/jdbgmgr.exe.file.hoax.html


**HEAVY SIGH**

Yeah, I already knew that. Seems these "social viruses" spread even faster than the real ones. If I may make a single recommendation to all and sundry, check with the CIAC's hoax page first before spreading e-mail messages regarding viruses. They're updated with aggressive regularity. It can be found at:

   http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/

The CIAC is the U.S. Department of Energy's Computer Incident Advisory Capability website, which has been providing this service since 1995. Their homepage is:

   http://www.ciac.org/ciac/

The various antivirus vendors typically get their info on hoaxes from this site.


Ciao for now.

Garth

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