April 9, 2002 Security Advisory 

This is a warning about scams and hoaxes. 

Many of you email me to check on virus alerts and Internet scams. Please 
keep sending them to me so I may provide you with the best and most timely
security alert service. 

As a rule of thumb, it is always a good idea to check on hoaxes before 
forwarding them to your friends. Hoaxes are like worms, their purpose is to be 
reproduced and sent out to as many computers as possible, which in turn wastes your 
time and increasingly precious Internet bandwidth. Antivirus solutions vendors have 
dedicated web pages to hoaxes which I urge you to visit whenever you receive virus 
alerts from untrusted sources. 

Here is a list of seven leading antivirus vendors' web pages dedicated to hoaxes: 

Symantec - http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/hoax.html 
Trend  Micro - http://www.antivirus.com/vinfo/hoaxes/hoax.asp
McAfee - http://vil.mcafee.com/hoax.asp? 
Sophos - http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/hoaxes/ 
Command Software - http://www.commandcom.com/virus/virus_hoaxes.html 
F-Secure - http://www.europe.f-secure.com/hoaxes/hoax_new.shtml 
Kaspersky - http://www.viruslist.com/eng/index.html?tnews=1005 

You should also be aware of telephone scams. AT&T also has a web page dedicated to
the most common telephone scams in the US. Those are real scams that are actively being
deployed.

Please visit AT&T's website located at http://www.att.com/fraud/home.html#four
to learn about them and tell you how to protect yourself from telephone fraud. 
For a list of telephone scams in your own country, please go to your leading local
telecom website. 

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Have a safe computing experience and don't forget to back up your files! 

Fredo Martin 
http://www.workingarts.com/infosecarchives