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Virus Hoaxes Do you ever get emails from a friend of a friend of a ...... Telling you that you may have a certain file in you computer. And that it is a dormant virus and if you do not remove it, in two weeks it will wipe out your hard drive. Well before you forward it to all your friends and go to the trouble of removing a perfectly good and essential file, that your computer may really need to perform some of its functions. Also go to: This site lists known Virus Hoaxes. Most of these virus hoax promoters are not clever enough to design a virus to damage your computer. By putting out bogus virus information they hope that you will, (1)damage your system yourself by needlessly removing a required system file and, (2)pass the hoax along to all your friends. Hope this helps
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