I also tell people to sign up for free Anti-virus newsletters from their
choice of A/V companies. Also, if you hear about one on CNN & the local
news, then *most* likely, they already checked it out as well.
A list of free newsletters:
Symantec (Norton): http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/newsletter.html
McAfee: http://dispatch.mcafee.com/
Trend Micro: http://www.antivirus.com/subscriptions/addname.htm
Some hoax sites:
http://vil.mcafee.com/hoax.asp
http://urbanlegends.about.com/science/urbanlegends/mbody.htm
http://www.vmyths.com/
http://www.scambusters.org/ (also includes internet scams)
http://www.cdc.gov/hoax_rumors.htm (good one from the CDC on health related
hoaxes)
Remember, any message that tells you to pass it on to everyone you know, or
includes a warning including lots of extreme language, will most likely fall
into the category of a hoax, or chain letters.
An actual message from one of these A/V sites will not use all that
language.
For example, Trend Microsystems Newsletter:
Virus Name: TROJ_MATCHER.A
Risk Type: Red Alert
Pattern File: #880
This Trojan is currently in the wild and comes disguised as a Love Matching
program. It was created in Visual Basic 6.0 and uses the Visual Basic
component Microsoft Script Control to propagate using the default installed
mail client. It finds recipients to receive the tainted email from the
Windows Address book of the infected system. A sample of the email is as
follows:
Subject: Matcher
Message Body: Want to find your love mates!! Try this its cool� Looks and
Attitude Matching to opposite sex.
Attachment: Matcher.exe
This Trojan can be detected by pattern file #880, which is available on the
Trend Web site at http://www.antivirus.com/download.
For more information regarding TROJ_MATCHER.A, please access the Trend Virus
Information Center at http://www.antivirus.com/vinfo.
HTH,
Thomas
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