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Virus Warnings Chains

Virus Warnings could probably be called the original e-mail chain letters. In the early days of the 'net, when most people were discovering its wonders for the first time, few understood its limitations and threats. These hoaxes prey on users who have little knowledge about technology and how it works. They frequently describe terrible consequences that are not really possible, quoting "official" sources like AOL, IBM, or Microsoft and desperately urging you to forward them on to everyone you know.

The Chains (in alphabetical order by bolded keyword)

• An Internet Flower For You
  KEYWORDS: Intel, dynamic link libraries
• A Virtual Card for You
  KEYWORDS: McAfee, Sector Zero, hard disk, CNN, Microsoft
• The Avril Lavigne Virus
  KEYWORDS: virus, Avril Lavigne, e-mail, singer, Lirva, worm
• The Badtrans worm/virus
  KEYWORDS: Badtrans, Re:, Pics, images, readme, new_napster_site, news_doc, HAMSTER, YOU_are_FAT!, stuff, SETUP, Card, Me_nude, Sorry_about_yesterday, info, docs, Humor, fun, .pif, .scr, virus, worm
• Budweiser Frogs Screen Saver
  KEYWORDS: none
• W32.Bugbear@mm - The Bugbear Worm
  KEYWORDS: Virus Warning, High risk, w32.Bugbear@mm, mass-mailing worm, antivirus, firewall, SMTP, e-mail, attachments, Microsoft, vulnerability, IFRAME, MIME, exploit
• Beware of E-Greeting Cards
  KEYWORDS: electronic cards, greeting, freindGreetings.com, card, ActiveX, EULA, address book, virus, techTV, e greetings, key logger
• The Goner Worm
  KEYWORDS: Screen saver, harry, gone.scr
• The IM Invitation Virus?
  KEYWORDS: dvorak@yahoo.com, honest2friends@yahoo.com, yahoo messenger, virus, hard drive killer, angell11, tewwtuler, sassybitch, bulletin, tanwir2001, buddy list
• It Takes Guts to Say Jesus
  KEYWORDS: none
• jdbgmgr.exe
  KEYWORDS: virus, address book, jdbgmgr.exe, teddy bear, delete, recycle bin
• Life is Beautiful.pps
  KEYWORDS: Microsoft, Norton, PowerPoint, Life is Beautiful.pps, PC, UOL, hacker, life owner, Windows-XP
• Love Letter Aftermath
  KEYWORDS: ILOVEYOU, copycat, worm, love bug
• Merry Christmas Virus
  KEYWORDS: message, attached file, Merry Christmas, virus, Open Log Fire, burn, hard disc, contact list, Microsoft, McAfee, sector zero
• Critical Security Update From Microsoft
  KEYWORDS: Microsoft, Security@microsoft.com, patch, Internet Explorer, virus, customer, security update, cumulative update, vulnerabilties, ms, outlook express, install, patches
• Naked Wife
  KEYWORDS: Naked Wife.exe, virus, worm, flash movie, windows address book, .BMP, .COM, .DLL, .EXE, .INI, WINDOWS
• New Pictures of Family
  KEYWORDS: Pretty Park
• New Pictures From My Party
  KEYWORDS: W32.Myparty@mm, worm, new photos from my party, www.myparty.yahoo.com
• Olympic Torch Virus
  KEYWORDS: Invitation, virus, olympic torch, burns, disc C, computer, CNN, Microsoft, McAfee, Zero Sector, Hard Disc
• Osama Bin-Laden Message and Pictures Harbors Dangerous Trojan?
  KEYWORDS: Snopes.com, pictures, Osama Bin-Laden, captured, hanged, emails, computer, crash, exploit.exe, trojan, backdoor-azu, bkdr_larslp.a, download.trojan, trojanproxy.win32.small.b, or Win32.slarp
• Peace BeTweeN AmeriCa And IsLaM Vote Virus
  KEYWORDS: Virus, War, worm, Microsoft Outlook Express, MAPI, Peace Between America and Islam, WTC.exe, trojan
• The Postcard Virus
  KEYWORDS: attachment, postcard, image, hard disc C, virus, CNN, Microsoft, Zero Sector
• Pretty Park
  KEYWORDS: None
• Don't Visit Sandman's Page
  KEYWORDS: www.geocities.com/vienna/6318, hack, c:\drive
• Sulfnbk.exe
  KEYWORDS: sulfnbk.exe, delete, virus, Symantec, detect, activated, anti-virus, address book, find, search, blackish icon
• Beware of "Unavailable" Cell Phone Calls
  KEYWORDS: Mobile phone, Unavailable, virus, IMIE, IMSI, SIM, Motorola, Nokia, CNN
• Upgrade Internet2
  KEYWORDS: Virus with no cure, perrin.exe, CNN, anti-virus
• A Very Bad Virus
  KEYWORDS: Very Bad Virus, West Dakota Research Corp, WDRC, Department of Decease Control, Turret's Virus, Microsoft, Conjunctivitis virus
• Win a Holiday
  KEYWORDS: hard drive, Microsoft, Compaq
• Wobbler
  KEYWORDS: How to give a cat a colonic, IBM, AOL, Melissa, Microsoft, Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, hard drive, address book, Hewlett-Packard
• Worm Klez.E immunity (Real Virus)
  KEYWORDS: Worm, Klez.E, immunity, AV, virus, tool
• E-mail Trick to Prevent Sending Worms
  KEYWORDS: Putor Tutor, Viruses, trick, address book, worms, attachments, contact, : 0000, : 0000@novirus.com
• WTC Survivor Virus
  KEYWORDS: BIGGGG TROUBLE, WTC Survivor, virus, C Drive, address book, dynamic link libraries, .dll