Wednesday, September 26, 2007

The virus hoax

The hoax is a false email message which warns the recipient of a virus. The message usually serves as a chain e-mail that tells the recipient to send it to everyone you know.
Most hoaxes are easily identified by the fact that they say the virus will make damage in your PC.
Virus hoaxes are usually harmless and just than annoy people. They just know it's a hoax or waste the time of people who forward the message. However there are so many hoaxes which just call people’s attention to if they delete the program, the computer will have damaged.
Hoaxes are not the same as computer pranks. Computer prank is a program that performs unwanted and annoying actions on a computer, like randomly move the mouse.
The anti-virus specialists advice: we should delete virus hoaxes instead of forwarding them. For example, McAfee says: "We are advising users who receive the email to delete it and DO NOT pass it on as this is how an email HOAX propagates.”
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