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[Shane B]

The Internet is marvellous for sharing information AND misinformation,
commonly referred to as Urban Legends and Hoaxes. All too often, the unwary
or inexperienced fall for this sometimes plausible nonsense and non-sense, 
so I have compiled a list of different websites to assist you in protecting
yourself against the legends:

Alastair


URBAN LEGENDS & HOAXES IN GENERAL



http://web.tampabay.rr.com/lionsgoblet/hoax.htm



http://www.vmyths.com
http://www.ulrc.com.au/
http://HoaxBusters.ciac.org/
http://www.urbanlegends.com/
http://www.snopes.com/
http://www.truthorfiction.com/
http://www.nonprofit.net/hoax/default.htm
http://kumite.com/myths/
http://bl.net/forwards/cookie.html
http://www.texascooking.com/features/may99redvelvet.htm
http://www.snopes2.com/business/consumer/cookie.htm
http://www.english.uga.edu/~clandrum/example_html/urban.example.html
http://www.cnet.com/techtrends/0-7311128-8-7150402-1.html
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blbyol19.htm
http://www.f-secure.com/hoaxes/cookiecl.shtml
http://vil.mcafee.com/hoax.asp
http://www.icsa.net/services/consortia/anti-virus/alerthoax.shtml
http://vil.mcafee.com/dispHoax.asp?id=vh10170
http://hoaxinfo.com/emergency.htm
http://www.urbanlegends.com/ulz/phone77.html
http://www.snopes2.com/horrors/mayhem/fakecop.htm
http://newbieclub.com/virushoax.htm
http://www.scambusters.org/otherhoaxes.html
http://www.korova.com/virus/hoax.htm


Dr. Solomons Hoax Page at

http://www.drsolomons.com/vircen/hoax.html


Department of Energy Computer Incident Advisory Capability at:

http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACHoaxes.html



Hoax Warnings

http://www.datafellows.com/virus-info/hoax/




EMPHASIS ON INTERNET MYTHS

http://www.scambusters.org/legends.html
http://hoaxinfo.com/

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ACTION AGAINST HOAXERS

The following sites help you take action against Internet hoaxers:

http://www.hoaxkill.com/index2.thtml

What is HoaxKill?

Most Internet users are familiar with virus warnings, chain letters and
petitions which arrive in their mailbox. Many of these messages spread false
information and waste a lot of bandwidth by asking you to forward them to all
your friends.

The HoaxKill service was created to help you identify hoaxes and to actively
combat them. To find out if a message is a hoax, you can look for it on this
website. If it's not there, you can send it to us at hoaxcheck at hoaxkill.com
for verification.

Once you are certain that a message is a hoax, you can send it to
hoaxkill at hoaxkill.com. Our software will then extract the addresses of all
previous recipients from the message and inform them all that the message is
a hoax.

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This site also helps you take action against hoaxes:

http://www.netsquirrel.com/combatkit/

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COMPUTER VIRUS MYTHS

http://www.spcug.org/hoax.htm
http://www.Vmyths.com/
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/hoax.html

REAL VIRUSES & HOW TO DEAL WITH THEM

http://www.scambusters.org/viruses.html
http://www.itd.umich.edu/virusbusters/

SOUTH AFRICAN LEGENDS

http://www.legends.org.za/arthur/

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