Scams, in general, are the new malware delivery method. Social engineering is the norm. Falsifying a link is the hallmark of phishing scams, seeded downloader Trojans, and other web-based malware. To understand how trivially easy it is for a malicious person to falsify a link, see: "Ferreting out a Fake".

The !0000 tip began as a misguided attempt to be helpful. The hoax instructs users to add the bogus !0000 name to their email address book in an effort to thwart email worms. The author assumed that the worm would try to send itself to all addresses listed in the address book and an error would be generated because of the !0000 address.

This appears to be not so much a hoax as a misguided attempt to be helpful. The email being distributed lists a combination of actual virus names and actual hoax names.

Two variants of this hoax exist. One masquerades as a warning about an alleged dangerous new virus. The second claims to be a photograph taken just moments before planes struck the World Trade Center on 9/11.

There are some information about Matrix_99.MTX and Win a Nokia.

This hoax has been around for over a year. Generally, it will be received with the word "Virus" in the subject line.

A classic example of a virus hoax, the 'A Virtual Card for You' hoax warns of a virus that is allegedly the most destructive ever! According to the email, the virus destroys the non-existent 'Sector Zero' and thus permanently destroying the hard drive.

That a kind of hoax named Vigo Examiner.

Recycled email prank warning of the dangers of the Two-Striped Telamonia, purportedly a poisonous spider that hides under toilet seats and has killed five people in North Florida

An anonymous person attacks Swiffer WetJet, accusing it of using chemicals that cause liver failure in animals.