Dealing with Hoax News

Recently many users have received e-mail warnings about viruses, which turn out to be hoax. All over the world, the amount of "hoax" emails that a person receives in his mailbox is adding up day by day. These concocted stories waste useful time and resources.. To prevent hoaxes from spreading at KFUPM, ITC has come up with the following policy:

All E-mail users are advised not to forward any virus warnings of any kind to *anyone* other than ITC Postmaster <postmaster@kfupm.edu.sa>. It doesn't matter if the virus warnings have come from an anti-virus vendor or been confirmed by any large computer company or your best friend. *All* virus warnings should be sent to postmaster@kfupm.edu.sa alone. It is Postmaster's job to send all virus related warnings if appropriate, and a virus warning which comes from any other source should be ignored."

We highly appreciate your concern, understanding, cooperation and support.

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