How does one go about finding out if is virus warning received in an e-mail is actually true?
You should always make it a practice of checking the veracity of any warning you receive via e-mail before passing it on. There are several sites that you can use to check if the warning is true or a hoax. http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/ http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/hoax.html http://www.truthorfiction.com/search.htm http://www.snopes.com/ If you dont find it on the first site you try, check with some of the others. They all dont track the same hoaxes.