(Answer) (Category) OSU Physics Faq's : (Category) Computing (general) :
An email message said I should change something on my computer and forward the warning to everyone I know. What should I do?
This kind of email is almost always a hoax. Be particularly suspicious of messages that tell you to forward them to everyone possible, or that are vague about factual details ("recently" or "this week" instead of "on Feb. 22, 2002", for instance).

You can check on such things at a number of helpful websites:

http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/ - The Hoaxbusters Homepage

http://www.snopes2.com/ - The Urban Legends Homepage

http://vil.mcafee.com/hoax.asp? - McAfee's Virus Hoax Homepage

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/ - Symantec's Computer Virus Alerts Homepage

And of course, you can always ask the PCF staff by email to `action' or calling 2-4269.


2004-Aug-19 9:51am bcd@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu

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