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Hoaxes are messages that claim to be warnings of real virus threats.
There are even hoaxes that warn of other hoaxes being infected by viruses. Computer virus hoaxes have been around for nearly as long as the first virus. One might even consider them a cottage industry provided money was to be derived from them. The fact is, hoaxes have only one purpose in life and that is to spread to as many people as possible. Quite the same goal as viruses, some might say.