I had not heard of this hoax before someone brought it up on a non-techie list I’m on.
If you’ve seen mail telling you that you should put wormalert@somewhere.com in your address book to protect you from viruses, it’s a hoax. We have set up an auto-responder at that address so that anyone who sends mail to it will get an explanation of why that would be about as effective at preventing viruses as hanging a clove of garlic in front of your monitor.
I use somewhere.com as a registrar for several domain names, so when the address was mentioned, I thought that was interesting and went to their site to see what was up. It appears that Kee Hinckley’s the victim of his intentionally vague domain name.
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