David:
The following should answer your question.
Department of Energy Computer Incident Advisory Capability at
http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACHoaxes.html
Symantec Anti Virus Research Center at
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/index.html
McAfee Associates Virus Hoax List at
http://www.mcafee.com/support/hoax.html
Dr. Solomons Hoax Page at
http://www.drsolomons.com/vircen/hoax.html
The Urban Legends Web Site at
http://www.urbanlegends.com
Urban Legends Reference Pages at
http://www.snopes.com
Datafellows Hoax Warnings at
http://www.Europe.Datafellows.com/news/hoax.htm
Evaluating Internet Research Sources at
http://www.sccu.edu/faculty/R_Harris/evalu8it.htm
Evaluation of Information Sources at
http://www.vuw.ac.nz/~agsmith/evaln/evaln.htm
Bibliography on Evaluating Internet Resources at
http://refserver.lib.vt.edu/libinst/critTHINK.HTM
David Lang wrote:
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> I have seen mentions of a place to check the accuracy of this type of
> thing, but cannot find it. This sounds possible (unlike most of the alerts
> I get) can someone point me someplace to check on it?
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> David Lang
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> Internet worm can crash corporate servers
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> A computer worm named Happy99.exe -- which replicates
> itself when users send infected E-mail to others or post
> to newsgroups -- can slow down or crash corporate E-mail
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> http://www.computerworld.com/home/news.nsf/CWFlash/9901273happy
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