For help with junk mail problems:
http://www.spamfo.co.uk/
http://www.sophos.com/spaminfo/
Information about Virus Hoaxes
http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/hoax.html
The following information is transcribed from one of Fred Langa's Langalist Emails
A good rule of thumb is NEVER to believe or forward any email just
because it says "Urgent: Pass this on to everyone!" or comes from a
buddy (even a well-intentioned one). Chain letters are almost always
(99.99999% of the time) a hoax or scam designed solely to trick the
gullible into perpetrating the hoax.
You can make yourself chain-letter-proof by taking literally about a
minute to check up on any claims made in chain letters you receive:
Symantec Anti Virus Research Center at http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/index.html
McAfee Associates Virus Hoax List at http://vil.mcafee.com/hoax.asp
Department of Energy Computer Incident Advisory Capability at
http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/
Online and email hoaxes http://www.kumite.com/myths/
Urban Legends Reference Pages at http://www.snopes.com
ALWAYS take a few seconds to verify the truth of any email like the one
above, and then tell your friends only if it proves true. Otherwise,
you're just helping the hoaxers to waste people's time and bandwidth---
or, in this case, actually to delete part of their operating systems!
Additional resources to hone your nonsense detectors:
How To Evaluate Internet Research Sources at
http://www.virtualsalt.com/evalu8it.htm
How To Evaluate Information Sources at
http://www.vuw.ac.nz/~agsmith/evaln/evaln.htm
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