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This site, maintained by the folks who make the Norton AntiVirus software, describes several so-called hoax viruses:

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/hoax.html

There are a lot of "urban legends" also making their rounds. Here are some interesting sites:

http://www.snopes.com/

http://www.nonprofit.net/hoax/hoax.html

http://www.urbanlegends.com/

http://urbanlegends.miningco.com/culture/beliefs/urbanlegends/

http://www.scambusters.org/legends.html

http://www.stiller.com/hoaxes.htm (131 samples)

http://www.datafellows.com/hoaxes/hoax_index.htm (161 samples)

http://korova.com/virus/hoax_index.htm

http://www.autodream.com/chain/index.html