Is your mailbox and ICQ messages taken up with constant 'virus alerts', rumours, chain letters? Before you hit the forward button to 'warn' other gullible people, check one of these sites first to find out if it is for real!
 

Unfortunately, there are the occasional genuine viruses, but you will get a warning about these on the news or from a genuine news web site. There will be instructions on how to get rid of it or prevention. Antivirus Research Center will have the latest real virus warnings as they occur. Constant forwarding of the bogus ones may make us ignore the genuine virus alerts, so please check the accuracy before you forward anything.

Then there is the constant barrage of ICQ forwards. This guy has an answer for all of them. He is kept up to date on any new rumours circulating - so if you are not sure, don't forward and annoy everyone on your list, email the message to this bloke (at his request). Visit his site and if necessary, counteract the forwarded rubbish with this URL ( which I have been doing for about a year, but the same people continue to pass them on:-) I wonder if it has occurred to anyone, that when you get a warning forward that 'john doe, ICQ# ********* is hacking computers or sending viruses, that it may have started by someone having a grudge against this person and when you forward the message , are contributing to slandering (or is that libelling?)  the guy/girl even further?