Virus Information

These pages, sponsored by the Computer Incident Advisory Committee of the U. S. Department of Energy, "describe some of the warnings, offers, and pleas for help that are filling our mailboxes, clogging our mail servers, and that generally do not have any basis in fact." Sections include how to recognize hoaxes, how to deal with them and the history of Internet hoaxes.

This page, from the McAfee antivirus software company, provides tips and advice on how to prevent computer viruses, how to eliminate them, and lists viruses that have struck recently. Also available are scans of a visitor's computer to check for viruses.

This site from Symantec, the makers of Norton Antivirus products, provides a list of recent computer viruses, along with an assessment of their severity and the level of threat they pose. Also offered is advice on how to prevent and get rid of viruses, a virus encyclopedia, a list of virus hoaxes and more.

"Virus Encyclopedia" is sponsored by Symantec, a company which sells anti-virus software. It includes brief information on hundreds of computer viruses.