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There is a lot of stuff on the Internet - an understatement if you ever heard one!  Some of it's "for real" and some of it isn't.  The same thing is true of e-mails.  In fact, you may have received an e-mail about something which in reality is a hoax!  How can you tell the difference?  There is no clear-cut way, of course, but you'll want to do all the research you can before you believe what you read - and before you send it on to all of your friends.

My definition of an "urban legend" is a lie told so often that it becomes "accepted knowledge," that is, "everyone" says it happened, but no one can explain where or when.

There actually have been several viruses lately which affected Microsoft e-mail programs; the place to check them out is on Microsoft's website, because they have a vested interest in cleaning up the mess as quickly as possible.

Listed below are pages with helpful information on viruses, urban legends and hoaxes.  If you know of any other such pages, please let me know.  My e-mail address is below.

"Current Internet Hoaxes, urban legends and other digital lies - 
Urban Legends and Folklore"
urbanlegends.miningco.com/library/blhoax.htm?pid=2733&cob=home

"Urban Legend Combat Kit at NetSquirrel.com"
netsquirrel.com/combatkit/index.html

"Urban Legends Reference Pages" www.snopes.com/ 

"Don't Spread that Hoax" www.nonprofit.net/hoax/

"Data Fellows Hoax Warnings" www.datafellows.com/news/hoax.htm

"Computer Virus Myths Home Page"  www.kumite.com/myths/

"Hoaxbusters" hoaxbusters.ciac.org/ 

"Symantec Anti-Virus Research Center"   www.symantec.com/avcenter/index.html

List Compiled by Marge Marshall
Updated 2-Feb-05

margemarshall@yahoo.com

Disclaimer:  I'm not responsible for any objectionable 
material on any of these pages, nor for 
any erroneous information
which might be on them.

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