Hit: Urban legends/hoax websites

[Phyllis Novetsky <pnovetsky@AMERITECH.NET>]

You people are truly unbelievable!!!  In less than 24 hours, I have received so 
many responses that I can post this Hit:

Many thanks to you all ..........  Phyllis Novetsky  Oak Park High School
Oak Park, Michigan  pnovetsky@ameritech.net

Urban legends and False Virus alerts

http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACHoaxes.html

http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/ U.S. Department of Energy--provides a tutorial
on how to spot a hoax and what to do plus links to other sites

http://kumite.com/myths/ Computer Virus Myths Home page

http://urbanlegends.about.com/science/urbanlegends/ The Mining Company
Urban Legends & Folklore

http://urbanlegends.about.com/science/urbanlegends/?once=true&;

http://urbanlegends.about.com/science/urbanlegends/index.htm

http://urbanlegends.about.com/science/urbanlegends/library/blhoax.htm

http://vil.mcafee.com/hoax.asp

http://www.DataFellows.com/news/hoax/ DataFellows AntiVirus Hoax Warnings Page

http://www.Europe.Datafellows.com/news/hoax.htm Datafellows Hoax Warnings

http://www.f-secure.com/virus-info/hoax/

http://www.norton.com/

http://www.scambusters.com/

http://www.snopes2.com/info/search/ Urban Legends Reference Pages

http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/hoaxes//

http://www.stiller.com/hoaxes.htm Stiller Research Virus Hoax News

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/index.html Symantec Anti Virus Research Center

http://www.urbanlegends.com/ The Urban Legends Web Site

http://www.vmyths.com/


Urban Legends
http://www.purportal.com/  Checks the possibility of the story being a hoax

http://www.urbanlegends.com/

http://urbanlegends.about.com

I have prepared a Hotlist on Urban Legends which you can find at
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/fil/pages/listurbanlemr.html

http://www.Vmyths.com/

http://www.utexas.edu/cc/ds/alerts/hoax.html

http://www.truthorfiction.com/

The Hoaxbusters site is especially good because it provides a tutorial on
how to spot one and what to do plus links to other sites.

http://www.snopes.com/

http://www.museumofhoaxes.com

VIRUS MYTHS & HOAXES

Vmyths.com - #1 Place to find the truth about computer virus myths & hoaxes

Computer Virus Hoaxes - from About.Com

CIAC Internet Hoaxes - Describes many of the hoax warnings that are found on the 
Internet today; some of the history of hoaxes on the Internet; how to identify a 
new hoax warning; how to identify a validated warning; and what to do if you think 
a message is a hoax.

McAfee Virus Hoaxes - A listing of known Virus Hoaxes which have been spread via 
e-mail and over the internet along with the actual text warnings.

Net Hoaxes & Rumors - from About.com

Symantec AntiVirus Research Center - A comprehensive list of viruses that DO NOT 
EXIST, despite rumor of their creation and distribution.

http://urbanlegends.about.com/mbody.htm?once=true&;

http://www.dhmo.org  Purports to be an organization keeping track of all the groups 
pro and con relating to dihydrogen monoxide (otherwise known as water)


For anyone looking for a new & bad Web page to help develop Web
evaluation skills, I offer

"http://www.umbachconsulting.com/FeralFlamingo.pdf

http://www.umbachconsulting.com/FeralFlamingo.pdf
It is, I hope, a worthy companion to my well known Velcro hoax, although
this one is under pen name Herbert T. Brewer.  This new piece is my take on the 
feral flamingos of Sacramento's Capitol Park  At nine pages, mostly illustrations, 
it is quick
reading.  However, the mixture of; fact and genuine source citations with the 
imaginary feral flamingos may provide an amusing challenge for some students. All 
of the photos, by the way, are genuine -- except for the first one in the document, 
showing the
flamingos in a shallow pool next to a walkway; (The flamingos are
real, too, and I also photographed them -- just not in that particular
location, Caution: it is a pretty big file, upwards of a megabyte; I have
included, for your convenience, a copyright notice at the end of the
document that makes it easy for teachers to use the page for educational
purposes; (I give explicit permission for that sort of use.

Fake Mantiko Site: http://lme.mnsu.edu/mankato/mankato.html
also some other sites:
http://www.shsu.edu/~lis_mah/documents/TAET/hoaxtable.html

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