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could this be a hoax

The reports of this virus may be a hoax. Google searches on this bring up a lot of hits to forums and some blogs with the reported fix, but there is a total lack of any information on this from the anti-virus companies. I have searched several of the leading anti-virus companies sites, including Avast who supposedly can remove this, and have not been able to find any mention of this virus. If there was a virus in the wild I would have thought the anti-virus companies would have picked up on this by now.

What may be happening is some people for whatever reason are posting false claims that they have got this virus and then linking to the handful of blogs with the fix. I may be wrong on this but alarm bells are ringing. --Quarantine 12:20 , 9 June 2007 (UTC)

I'd rather assume that it's real for now until I hear from somewhere reputable that it isn't. The consequences of falling for a hoax aren't that bad, while the consequences of not helping users if it's real are.--Np 18:40, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

I searched the websites of several renowned anti-virus and anti-spyware manufactures and didn't found any information about a virus called w32.USBworm or Mozillaworm. Only "official" looking site I found is spywareguide.com which reputation I do not know --Jan 15:14, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

I don't know if it is a hoax or not but here's a screenshot of the "USE INTERNET EXPLORER YOU DOPE" alert box from this mozilla.support.firefox newsgroup post and here's a groups.google.com link to the thread where it was posted, in case anyone wants to add it to the article. Alice 15:23, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

P.S. I did some searching around using different search terms (Orkut, Youtube, heap41a) and came up with a McAfee page for W32/AHKHeap at http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_142280.htm which includes a screenshot for the "ORKUT IS BANNED" alert. Looks like W32/AHKHeap is the correct name for the malware producing the Orkut and Youtube alerts but I don't see any mention that it targets Firefox, especially. Alice 23:47, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

quotes in article title

Isn't the name of this article against the http://kb.mozillazine.org/Article_naming_conventions as it contains quotes ( ': %27)?
--Dickvl 01:29, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

Right... I noticed that the article link was broken in this news.mozilla.org message so I fixed the article name to remove the quotes. Alice 15:23, 2 July 2007 (UTC)