First and foremost, what are e-hoaxes?
E-hoaxes are chain letters that go around and around the Internet for years, talking about how if you receive an email message, you must send it to some other people, usally your friends.
The messages that they contain may or may not be true and involve invoking your sympathy, greed, anxieties or other human emotions to prompt you to respond.
E-hoaxes are not usually accompanied by viruses but sometimes a person intent on creating pandemonium would deliver an e-hoax about a virus attack, which can non-existent.
Such exploitation of the paranoia against viruses fuels the outset of a whole bevy of virus hoaxes such as the Ghost virus or the 2400 Baud modem virus in 1988.
