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1. Virus hoaxes play on peoples' fear. Especially new or inexperienced computer users do easily believe these warnings. If they are not informed about virus hoaxes they will forward all warnings to everybody and this can have unpleasant consequences. Some email systems have collapsed after dozens of users forwarded a false alert to everybody in the company.
2. Hoax virus warning messages are more than mere annoyances. After repeatedly becoming alarmed only to learn that there was no real virus, computer users may get into the habit of ignoring all virus warning messages, leaving them especially vulnerable to the next real, and truly destructive, virus.
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