Virus hoaxes

A virus hoax is typically distributed by e mail to warn' recipients of a new threat to computer systems security. After detailing how this new virus is a serious threat, the email advises you to forward the message to everyone you know. This 'chain letter' effect causes one kind of real harm.

Virus hoaxes can circulate widely. Suppose a recipient distributes it to 10 people and each of those 10 people distribute it to 10 more people, and so on down the line. After only six generations, one million bogus e-mail messages will circulate throughout the Internet. By the seventh generation the number reaches 10 million, and by the eighth generation - 100 million e-mail messages that serve no purpose are clogging up networks worldwide. This effect can cause servers or routers (specialized computers that route Internet traffic) to slow down or even crash.

Often such hoaxes are forwarded with good intentions. A classic example is the e-mail
warning about a virus called 'Deeyenda', circulating since 1995. It claims a virus called Deeyenda is circulating via e-mail. The e-mail explains the FCC (Federal
Communications Commission) has issued warnings about this virus, and advises the
recipient to pass the message on.

Everything about the warning is false. Viruses can't be activated by reading a text e-mail and the FCC doesn't issue warnings about viruses. (Spyware, yes. But then it's not usually a warning, but the annoucement of a criminal indictment.) Furthermore, there has never been a virus called Deeyenda.

Even a hoax can do real system damage. Some warn the user to delete certain files

allegedly containing the virus. Such files are typically (unknown to the average user, of course) critical to proper computer operation. Deleting them may have no immediate effect - until the system is re-booted and fails to start.

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