Why would someone make up a virus hoax?
A- A virus hoax typically is made for a number of reasons. a) The hoaxer feeds off the fears of people that are not educated in virus protection. Simply put, the hoaxer is malicious and enjoys the fear he / she spreads. b) The hoax is designed to clog email servers and degrade performance. These you can normally identify by the common phrase found in the message; “FORWARD THIS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW!” An email has a “header” on it. This header may look something like this sample header below; Microsoft Mail Internet Headers Version 2.0 Received: from mh.iomega.m0.net ([209.11.164.102]) by exchange.usmma.edu with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5329); Tue, 3 Dec 2002 10:22:42 -0500 Received: from [000.11.100.92] by 10.207.1.102 (mh.iomega.m0.net) with SMTP; 03 Dec 2002 07:26:43 +0000 Message-ID: <7564286268.1038928554774@m0.net> Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 07:15:54 -0800 (PST) From: Iomega News
