Shortcuts to Year 2000 and virus material on this web site

Articles about the Year 2000 Crisis

• Six Myths of the Year 2000 Crisis -- Some misconceptions repeated by gullible media.
• Year 2000 is not an Earthquake -- reprinted from the ACM Chicago Chapter Newsletter.
• September 9 Hoax Takes in Mainstream Media

Articles about viruses

• No One Ever Got Fired for Choosing IBM; What about Microsoft? -- Who's to blame for the Zotob worm?
• Buffers Don't Overflow on Their Own, More silly panic peddling by the media, and a pattern of blame. Our Issue of the Summer, 2000.
• Love Bug Virus Replays Melissa Hysteria -- The main culprit wasn't in the Philippines -- Our May, 2000 Issue of the Month.
• Melissa Virus Illustrates User Naieveté and Software Flaws -- Our April 1999, Issue of the Month.

Another interesting web site

The virus myths web site exposes and analyzes various virus hoaxes and media misinformation.

2012 Update—The above web site isn't being updated.
If you search the web for "virus myths malware hoax" you'll find many articles, but most of them are either old or hoaxes. Does that indicate that today's operating systems are less vulnerable to such infections? Let's hope so.

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