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  • From: tmjpbn AT ihug.co.nz
  • To: "Corpus-paul" <corpus-paul AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>, "Corpus-paul" <corpus-paul AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Tis the season for viruses and worms
  • Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 00:45:33 GMT


Hi

> No. 1 THE VIRUS
>
> A friend warned me about a virus that is not detected by McAffee or
> Norton. It's a sleeper and eventually wakes up and destroys the data on
> your hard drive. I did not find it on the computer I'm sending this
> from, but it was on the church computer and on the laptop.
>
> To check for it, use START, FIND, FILES OR FOLDERS and check for a file
> named SULFNBK.EXE. If you find it, DELETE it. (Do NOT open it!) Then
> empty your Recyled folder.
>
> If you have it, let everyone in your address book know.

This is a hoax.
SULFNBK.EXE is a real Windows utility - don't delete it unless
you have reason to believe it is infected.

(The hoax probably originated because certain older viruses
occasionally loaded an infected SULFNBK.EXE as their payload.)

Search on the www.symantec.com site you referred to under
No. 2 and you will find a page about it.

> No. 2 THE WORM
(badtrans)

This probably isn't a hoax. Badtrans spread itself very
widely :-(

Cheers
Trevor Nicholls






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