Virus and Hoax Information

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PC Mobile Help

A division of PC Mobile, Inc.

If you receive e-mail that warns you of a virus, or any other e-mail that says "Send this to all your friends", please observe the following:

• You are almost never one of the first to hear about it.

• If it is of real concern, you will hear about it on the news long before e-mail.

• Warnings meant to be sent to "all your friends" are nothing more than malicious attempts to clog the internet with e-mails, which ends up costing you more for internet service in the long run.

Here is what you need to do if you receive one of these e-mails:

• Search one of the hoax sites below for information on the topic

• Go to a search engine such as www.altavista.com and enter some keywords, prefixed with plus signs.  For example, search for the following:
  +cancer  +hoax 
  You will find all sorts of links to sites containing the latest hoaxes about cancer.

Computer Hoax Links

Click here to read about returned email and virus warnings for messages you never sent.

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