All on Hoaxes and canulars

Last update on January 16, 2009 11:40 AM by deri58
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All on Hoaxes and canulars







Definition




This page is designated to give you a detailed definition of what are hoaxes

Hoax is being distributed as widely as possible to fool the largest number of Internet users who believe they are helping others or serve a good cause. Hoaxes do not represent a danger to your computer software. When misidentified, they can commit to the user, heavy damage on a computer, and are especially dangerous.

Effects of Hoaxes


The hoaxes can have many negative effects:
  • The loss of credibility of crucial information sent by mail.People will no more rely on media as they are unable to disseminate real information
  • The misinformation of the people who will believe in the hoax who will then disseminate the hoax and the rumor that goes with it.
  • The filling of mail boxes.
  • The network congestion as spam (spam) with useless traffic.
  • The flow of completely false rumors about a person, corporation, association ... What would you think if you were the subject of hoax?

Stopping hoaxes


It is easy enough to fight against these hoaxes.
When you receive an email asking to be widely distributed, go to Hoaxbuster

(http://www.hoaxbuster.com/) orHoaxKiller (http://www.hoaxkiller.com/)

To do this, do a search on a characteristic of mail (a significant part of the mail, the name of a person, company or association). If the mail appears in the search results as a hoax, delete same from your inbox.

In general, it is recommended not to send mail widely without being sure of its truth! An email received in his mailbox, which explicitly calls on the "forward" in mass is likely to be a hoax.

Note: Hoax is a hoax has the simple aim of overloading the network.

=Example of hoax mail==

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