One of the most common email hoaxes asks you to forward an email on to as many people as possible. The sender promises you will get money, win a prize, save your computer, or save a child.
      Please don't.
      Instead, please plug the name of the suspicious file into your favorite search engine, check the following links, or ask your network administrator for help. We like and recommend the advanced search section of google.com for discovering pages of links to virus information.

• The Urban Legends site: http://www.urbanlegends.com
  
• "Computer Virus Myths Home Page" http://kumite.com/myths/myths
  
• "CIAC Internet Hoaxes" from the US Department of Energy's Computer Incident Advisory Capability http://kumite.com/myths/myths
  
• Internet ScamBusters http://www.scambusters.org/legends.html

      Here's a list, sorted alphabetically, of some of the warning hoaxes we have received in the past couple of years.

Famed Hoaxes You Can Still Get

$800 from Microsoft Hoax

AOL hoaxes (there have been several)
AOL4Free Virus
AOL and Intel
AOL Flashing 'IM'
AOL Year 2000 Update
AOL V4.0 Cookie
A.I.D.S. Hoax

Baby New Year Virus
Bad Times
Be My Valentine
Big Brother
Blue Mountain Virus
Blueballs Are Underrated Virus
Budweiser Hoaxes
Bud Frogs Screen Saver
BUDSAVER.EXE

California IBM
California Virus Hoax
CELLSAVER Virus Hoax

Dear Friends Hoax
Death69
Death Ray
Deeyenda

E-Flu
EVIL THE CAT Virus Hoax
Elf Bowling Chain Letter
E-mail or get a Virus
E-mail Tax

Family Pictures
FatCat Virus
Flower for You
FREE M & M's Hoax
Free Money
Free Pizza Virus
Frogapult Chain Letter

GAP Email Tracking Hoax
Bill Gates Hoax (several)
Good Times
Giveaway Hoaxes--there have been several,
including Disney, Bill Gates, the GAP,
IBM, the Netscape-AOL, the Microsoft-AOL
and now the Intel-AOL
Geeks Bearing Gifts
Get More Money Hoax
Ghost
Gift from Microsoft Hoax
Girl Thing
Good Times
Guts to Say Jesus Hoax

Hacky Birthday Virus
Halloween Virus
Happy New Year Virus
Hello Dear
Hairy Palms Virus
Help Poor Dog
Hitler Hoax
How to Give a Cat a Colonic

Irish Virus
Internet Access Charge
Internet Cleanup Day
Irina

JDBGMGR.EXE (with a teddy bear icon) Hoax
Join the Crew Hoax

Let's Watch TV Hoax
Londhouse Virus Hoax
Lotus Notes Worm Hoax
Lump of Coal Virus Hoax

Make Money Fast
Miller's Free Beer
Matrix Virus
Microsoft Virus
Millennium Time Bomb
MOBILE PHONE Hoax

NASTYFRIEND99
The New Ice Age
Norman Virus
Norton anti-virus v5 Hoax

Pandemic Hoax
Penpal Greetings
Perrin.exe Virus Hoax
Phantom Menace Virus Hoax
PKZ300
Pikachus Ball Hoax
Pluperfect Hoax

Red Alert
Returned or Unable to Deliver

Sandman Hoax
Sarc Virus Test Hoax
Scoutshacker Hoax
Simon Pugh Hoax
South Park News Letter Hoax
SULFNBK.EXE Hoax

Takes Guts to Say Jesus Hoax
Teletubbies
Time Bomb
Tuxissa Hoax

Upgrade Internet 2 Hoax

Very Cool
Virtual Card for You Virus Hoax
Virtual Card Virus Hoax
Virtual Card
Virtual Card 2
Virus Business

Watching Hoax
WAZ UP Hoax
Win a Holiday
Windows will Fail on Jan 1 Hoax
Wobbler Virus Hoax
Wooden Horse Hoax
WordScribe Virus Hoax
Work Virus Hoax
World Domination Hoax

Y2KGAME Virus Hoax
Yellow Teletubbies

RH Power Email
Tracker
Justin Mallory
Donations
Amazon and
Anti-Semitism
Hotmail is Shutting
Down
Man Without a Face
Needles at the Gas
Pumps
Janet Reno Quote
Klingerman Virus
Let's Watch TV/
KALI
Ericsson Free Phones
Victoria's Secret Gift
Certificate
Cyanide Laced
Deposit Envelopes
Perfume Dangers
Newell Company
2-Way Mirror
Celcom Screen Saver
Gap Certificates
Rat Droppings
Free Coca-Cola
Walmart and Preven
Katie Relek/BCC
donation
Spunkball Warning
Make A Wish
Foundation...
Win a Nokia
AOL and Intel email
tracking
Missing Child
-Kelsey
Al Gore and the
Scriptures
Flesh Eating Bananas
Kentucky Fried
Chicken rumors
Exploding Water
Slashers at the Gas
Stations
Hypodermic Needles
at McDonalds/Kevin
Archer
Nina Totenberg and
the NEA
Microsoft Year 2000
Counter
The Blush Spider
Old Navy
Bath & Body Works
Abducted and
Assaulted at the
Mall/Inside Edition
Lump of Coal virus
Money from Honda
Insuring Cigars
Anna Cohen / Jada
letter
Abercrombie and
Fitch
Microsoft/AOL
email beta test
Taco Bell Chihuahua
on screen
Hewlett-Packard/Gateway
Merge - Free
Computers
Procter & Gamble
Satanist rumor
Elf Bowling
Free M&Ms
Wobbler or
California Virus
Free Gap Clothes
Postage Tax Hoax -
Bill 602P
Breast Cancer
Prevention -
Anti-Perspirant
Causes It
Netscape/AOL
Merge - New Email
Tracking System
Problems with your
AOL Account
Curt B. Please
Forward Chain Letter
Bug's Life
Screensaver Virus
Free Beer from
Miller Brewing
Company
Social Security
Number Racial Code
David "Darren"
Bucklew Chain
Letter
Cool Video Clip
Chain Letter
Febreze Warning
Tommy Hilfiger
Rumor
The Great "Gas Out"
Canadian email
charge
LSD & Strychnine on
Pay Phone Buttons
Madeline Murray
O'Hare Chain Letter /
Touched By An
Angel
February 2000 Will
Have 30 Days
Needles in Phone
Slots
Pregnant Roach at
Taco Bell
A.I.D.S. Virus/Open:
Very Cool
Body Stuffed With
Cocaine
Aspartame Warning -
We'll let the reader
decide on this one
Flashing Headlights
Blue Star Tattoos
Tampon Warning
It Takes Guts to Say
'Jesus' Virus Warning
Snakes at Burger
King
AOL Instant Message
Users
AOL Riot
Notice of
Investigation
Budweiser Frog
ScreenSaver Virus
Veterans Eligible For
GI Dividends
Woman Shopping at
Tuttle Mall
Shampoo Alert
Waterproof
Sunscreen Warning
Win A Holiday Virus
Welcome to the
World of
AIDs/Needles at the
Movies
Neiman Marcus
Cookie Recipe
Bill Gates Message
Bill Gates and
Disney Version
Join the Crew
Little girl dying of
cancer
Cleaning the Internet
Gerber Baby Bond
90# Telephone Scam
Per Minute Charges
for Internet Service
Long Distance
Charge for Internet
Free Shoes from
Nike
Kidney Thieves