Pretty Park Worm: Apologies and Reactions/"Don't mourn, organize!"

[will burre <redscares@yahoo.com>]

       "Don't Mourn, Organize" -Joe Hill

ok it's OT but let's use opportunity to focus each
other's attention on e-mail readers' responsibility to
update anti-virus software, say, at least monthly. 
your network people mostly do not do it for you.  




anti-virus software reviews
http://www.zdnet.com/products/stories/reviews/0,4161,397221,00.html


(...speaking of monopolies)
http://www.zdnet.com/products/stories/reviews/

               * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
 MORE GENERAL HOAX, URBAN LEGEND, MYTH AND VIRUS HOAX
LINKS:
  (a) VIRUS HOAXES
  (b) GENERAL INTERNET MYTHS AND HOAX PAGES
  (c) FREE ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE AND UPDATES TO DOWNLOAD

      (a) VIRUS HOAXES: 

U.S. DEPT. OF ENERGY:  
 http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACHoaxes.html
 http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACChainLetters.html
(chain letters)
 http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/

SYMANTEC ANTI-VIRUS RESEARCH CTR. (or to buy Norton
Anti-virus)
 http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/hoax.html  

STILLER HOAX NEWS (INTERNET MYTHS, VIRUS HOAXES)
 http://www.stiller.com/hoaxes.htm  

ROSENBERGER VIRUS HOAXES
 http://kumite.com/myths/  

MCAFEE ANTI-VIRUS
 http://www.nai.com/services/support/hoax/hoax.asp 
 http://vil.mcafee.com/villib/alpha.asp

MINING CO. HOAX LINKS

http://urbanlegends.miningco.com/msubvir.htm?pid=2733&cob=home
or
 http://urbanlegends.miningco.com/

IBM (also an anti-virus product)

http://www.av.ibm.com/BreakingNews/HypeAlert/index.html
or
 http://www.av.ibm.com/

ICSA

http://www.icsa.net/services/consortia/anti-virus/alerthoax.shtml
 http://www.icsa.net/services/consortia/anti-virus/

AVP VIRUS ENCYCLOPEDIA
http://www.avp.ch/avpve/newdesc.stm

		          RELATED VIRUS/HOAX RESOURCES:
Before antivirus web pages confirm a new virus or
hoax, there will often be
discussion on NEWSGROUPS alt.comp.virus, or
comp.virus, or even
alt.folklore.urban. or search: 
http://www.dejanews.com/ or 
http://www.aol.com/netfind/newsgroups.html (or use
your search engine).

early discussion may be on e-mail MAILING LISTS such
as virus-l or McAfee's 
VirusScan-Updates (see info at http://www.liszt.com) 

       (b)GENERAL INTERNET MYTHS AND HOAX PAGES

URBAN LEGEND REFERENCE PAGES AND DATABASE
http://www.snopes.com/  or search:
http://snopes.simplenet.com/info/search/search.htm

URBAN LEGEND MESSAGE BOARD, SEARCHABLE REFERENCE PAGES
http://snopes.simplenet.com/message/

KOROVA HOAX DU JOUR
http://www.korova.com/

 HOAXKILL AUTOMATED ANTI-HOAX REPLY SERVICE: 
 (Educates the chain letter senders upstream from you
automatically.)
 http://www.hoaxkill.com/hoaxes.html

 ALT.FOLKLORE.URBAN HOME PAGE
 http://www.urbanlegends.com/ or newsgroup:
 alt.folklore.urban

      (c) FREE ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE AND UPDATES TO
DOWNLOAD

 McAFEE VIRUSCAN EVALUATION SOFTWARE 
 (free for home users to try or update, or to virus
scan your pc online)
 http://www.nai.com/download/downloads/

 ANTIVIRUS SHAREWARE

http://www.download.com/pc/list/0,339,0-d-78-95-d-1,00.html

 http://www.download.com/ 
 http://shareware.netscape.com/ 

 NORTON ANTI-VIRUS
 http://www.symantec.com/ (not free after 30 days) 

 LISTS OF ANTI-VIRUS VENDORS

http://antivirus.about.com/msub15.htm?pid=2827&cob=home

 http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACVirusDatabase.html 
 (U.S. gov't page has links to more anti-virus
shareware)

 COMPARE LIST PRICES ON SEVERAL BRANDS
 http://www.pricescan.com/01021201.asp
 
 ANTIVIRUS SOFTWARE COMPARATIVE REVIEWS
 http://www.pcworld.com/cgi-bin/pcwtoday?ID=9622

http://www.zdnet.com/products/stories/reviews/0,4161,397221,00.html


       MORE GENERAL ANTIVIRUS LINKS
 http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/virus/#Links
 http://antivirus.about.com/index.htm
 http://antivirus.miningco.com/msub1.htm 

 GENERAL VIRUS EDUCATION SECTION (many articles
indexed)

http://www.zdnet.com/zdhelp/stories/main/0,5594,2289810,00.html

 PRACTICAL TIPS FOR AVOIDING VIRUSES

http://search.zdnet.com/cgi-bin/texis/zdhelp/zdhelp/single.html




--- Yves Montangie <ymontang@uia.ua.ac.be> wrote:
> I want to apologise to everyone who received an
> e-mail from me with an attachment containing the
> "pretty park"-virus. 
>
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