Internet Hoaxes and Urban Legends
- Alphabetic Hoax List
- F-Secure: Be Sure -- F-Secure Corporation provides products that include anti-virus, file encryption and network security solutions for all major platforms from desktops to servers and from laptops to handhelds. They also provide up-to-date information on viruses and hoaxes.
- Hoax Busters -- From the government agency, US Department of Energy, Computer Incident Advisory Capability, they find that they are spending much more time de-bunking hoaxes than handling real virus incidents. This page describes many of the hoax warnings that are found on the Internet today. They will also address some of the history of hoaxes on the Internet, how to identify a new hoax warning, how to identify a validated warning and what to do if you think a message is a hoax.
- SARC - Virus Hoaxes -- A comprehensive list of Viruses that don't exist, provided by Symantec.
- Urban Legends and Folklore -- A collection of resources about a wide variety of urban legends maintained by the Mining Company.
- Vmyths.com - Truth About Computer Virus Myths & Hoaxes -- Maintained and frequently updated by Rob Rosenberger, these pages provide information on computer virus myths.
- Additional Resources