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Has someone tried to pull the wool over
your eyes with a hoax virus? Are you totally embarrassed that you fell
for a hoax virus?
How a virus hoax can shut you down
One or two virus hoax messages may be a mere
annoyance. Several hundred or several thousand excess virus hoax messages flowing in or out of your company could effectively shut down
your office’s Internet access.
Ten years ago, it was difficult to get a virus through
anything but infected diskettes. Now it’s a lot easier to become a
victim -- a virus hoax makes the problem ten times worse.
Plus highly destructive and rapidly propagating viruses
can infect your hard drive through e-mail programs, Web browsers and
other Internet-borne mechanisms. In fact, today’s virus hoaxes, more
conventional viruses and security vulnerabilities make the primitive
pre-Internet-era viruses seem utterly inconsequential.
Virus – any kind of malicious software code
that can be delivered through a variety of mechanisms including
conventional software media, Internet downloads, e-mail file
attachments, file macros, scripting, ActiveX or Java applets, and
instant-messaging software.
Virus hoax follow-up questions
Keeping up with virus hoax outbreaks
Just like everything virus-related, you must keep
current on the latest virus hoax news.
Watch out for virus hoaxes, even if you know the sender
Don’t let your guard down just because a friend,
family member or colleague sent you the message (or perhaps one of those
virus hoaxes).
Avoid getting caught up in emotional excitement.
The creators of virus hoaxes apparently have similar
goals to those of virus creators: obstruct the flow of Internet data by
overwhelming scarce resources (with virus hoaxes)
Most virus experts consider virus hoaxes just another
strain of the common computer virus.
Avoid forwarding virus hoaxes
The cyber equivalent of chain letters, virus hoaxes often instill fear, attempt to separate the recipient from his or her
wallet and clog up Internet routers, mail servers and e-mail
inboxes.
Don't let one of those Internet virus hoaxes make you
look like an idiot!
Left unchecked, computer virus hoax can cost your
small business enormous amounts of money in lost data, unplanned
downtime, hampered productivity, as well as interrupted communication
and a damaged reputation with key business partners.
However, you can take many relatively simple steps to
avoid becoming another virus hoax infection statistic.
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