Information provided by Sophos Anti-Virus, courtesy of Angelo Consulting.

Latest 10 Virus Alerts

Top 10 Virus Hoaxes 

 

 

 

 
Important
Many virus hoaxes:
  • falsely claim to describe an extremely dangerous virus
  • use pseudo-technical language to make impressive-sounding (but impossible) claims
  • falsely claim that the report was issued or confirmed by a well-known company
  • ask you to forward it to all your friends and colleagues

As usual, you are urged not to pass on warnings of this kind, as the continued re-forwarding of these hoaxes simply wastes time and email bandwidth.  It is possible that you may receive a hoax via email with a file attached. Obviously, such file attachments should be treated with caution as they may be virus infected. You should delete virus hoax emails, whether they contain file attachments or not.