A computer virus hoax is a message warning the recipients of a non-existent computer virus threat. The message is usually a chain e-mail that tells the...
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after the hoax's originators have died or departed Computer virus hoaxes became widespread as viruses themselves began to spread. A typical hoax is an email...
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obscurity Cyberwarfare Computer worm Spyware Virus hoax Zombie computer Vincentas (11 July 2013). "Computer Viruses in SpyWareLoop.com". Spyware Loop. Archived...
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many people as possible. This is called a virus hoax. Virus phases is the life cycle of the computer virus, described by using an analogy to biology....
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jdbgmgr.exe virus hoax involved an e-mail spam in 2002 that advised computer users to delete a file named jdbgmgr.exe because it was a computer virus. jdbgmgr...
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SULFNBK.EXE (category Virus hoaxes)
famous in the early 2000s as the subject of an e-mail hoax. The hoax claimed that SULFNBK.EXE was a virus, and contained instructions to locate and delete...
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The Goodtimes virus, also styled as Good Times virus, was a computer virus hoax that spread during the early years of the Internet's popularity. Warnings...
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Bad Times (redirect from Bad Times (computer virus hoax))
virus hoax sent out by e-mail. This "virus" does not actually exist, and the "warning" is meant to parody the alarmist message that spread the hoax of...
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"Antichrist", or Anticristo, was a Spanish-language computer virus hoax distributed via email in 2001. The email was detected by Symantec, who is the owner...
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The following is a list of hoaxes: These types of hoaxes are semi-comical or private "sting operations" intended to expose people. They usually encourage...
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