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Year 2000 Computer Viruses and Hoaxes
CERT/CC Virus and Hoax ReportsThe following items are the approximate number of reports we have received of computer viruses and hoaxes that have some reference to Y2K. If you would like detailed information for the following viruses and hoaxes, check the virus databases maintained by the anti-virus vendors. A list of the databases can be found in the following document:
* A single virus or hoax may have a number of different names.
Information about Y2K Viruses by Anti-virus VendorsThis following sites have a variety of information about computer viruses and hoaxes that have some relation to Y2K. AVERT and SARC also have listings of trigger dates for various viruses.
This document is available from: http://www.cert.org/y2k-info/y2k-virus.html CERT/CC Contact Information
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