There are plenty of authoritative places on the Web to check out possible
hoaxes. Please familiarize yourself with them. Here are some:
US Department of Energy's Computer Incident Advisory Capability (CIAC)
http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACHoaxes.html
ISS X-Force
http://www.iss.net/cgi-bin/xforce/xforce_index.pl
TrendMicro Virus Alerts
http://www.antivirus.com/vinfo/alerts.htm
Internet Security Review (Online Edition, updated daily)
HTTP://WWW.ISR.NET/index1.html
Purdue University's COAST Security Archive
http://www.cs.purdue.edu/coast/archive/index.html
Regards.
Bill
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On Mon, 7 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> Hi,
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> has anyone heared about a virus which contain in a file BUDDYLST.ZIP (
> screensaver ) ???? the virus is eraseing harddisk and mailing name and
> password to someone. is it a joke????
>
> olaf.
> http://asperger.com
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