Virus Hoax
A computer
virus hoax is a message warning that recipients of a non-Existent computer
virus threat.
It is a
Threat that doesn’t actually exist but they seem like they could be real
Virus Hoaxes
are usually harmless and accomplish nothing more than annoying wasting the time
of people who forward the message.
Example of
few Virus hoax:
Good Times:
Warnings
about a computer virus named “Good times” began being passed around among
internet user in 1994. The good time virus was supposedly transmitted via an
email bearing the subnet header “Good Times” or Goodtimes” Hence the virus name
and the warning recommended deleting any such email unread. The Virus described
in the warning did not exist but the warning in effect virus like.
Invitation
attachment:
The
invitation virus hoax involved an email spam in 2006 that advised computer
users to delete an email with any type of attachment that stated with
invitation.
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