Hoax Warnings

Another recent hoax was a Warning about a virus on Microsoft home page. This was a nasty hoax warning that was distributed on several mailing lists and in Usenet news. The hoax message was falsely attributed to a member of the F-PROT Professional Support team.

This false warning urged people to stay off Microsoft's home page and to avoid using Microsoft Internet Explorer, because the 'Microsoft home page is possibly infected by a virus'. This was nonsense.