Here are some places to check to see if what that e-mail you just got
is talking about is real or a hoax.
(Deodorants do not cause breast cancer, and nobody's putting needles
on gas station pump handles.)
BIG HINT: if it went to everybody in the world before you, or
you should "send it to everybody you know!!!", odds are it's a hoax. If
it sounds real but there's a little warning bell going off in the back
of your head, check here.
non-virus hoaxes
- Datafellows.com
- "the industry standard for hoax warnings" [um - but a search
doesn't turn up some of the rather common ones...]
- HoaxBusters
other
hoax pages
- HoaxKill
- Stiller
- Urban Legends
Archive
- Urban
Legends (miningco)
- Urban Legends Reference
Pages (Snopes) <--- good place
to start
virus/security hoaxes
- Datafellows.com
- "the industry standard for hoax warnings" [um - but a search
doesn't turn up some of the rather common ones...]
- Computer Virus
Myths
- Stiller
- Virus
Hoaxes
- Vmyths.com