Warning / Virus Hoax / Or What?

Rusty

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Got message from friend of new virus,

sulfnbk.exe

said to check and delete without opening if found. Did so. Few minutes later, same person came back with new message saying it was a hoax, the thing was a legitimate file, don't delete it. If I had, please send msg, would direct on reinstalling.

Instead, I have a msg into my net provider. Anyway, don't jump too fast.

Just getting a new msg. Will let you know what I find out from the tech support people.
 
Message back from Great Basin Internet Services tech support responded with link to Symantec. Here it is:

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/sulfnbk.exe.warning.html

Gives history of hoax, that viruses have not been found if it is where it should be in system, how to check it out.

Apparently, your puter should work fine without the file, except in cases of working with very long file names. Explains to you how to reinstall from your backup disk.

Who did this should have his/her/it's throat cut. Slowly. Vertically. Starting at juncture of legs.

OK, link works. Self explanatory. Posted on Gen discussion forum.
 
:confused:

Was it an attachment to an e-mail?

I have heard of a hoax telling people to delete a file that already exists in Windoze. If it was one of those I would advise against deleting it.
 
We posted warnings about that hoax on this forum a couple of months ago when it first started going around, but like every other forwarded email no doubt it will continue to circulate forever or until homo sapiens evolves into an organism too intelligent to delete a system file and tell all their friends to do the same just because a forwarded email tells them to.

You may thank your dumb luck the hoaxer didn't tell you to delete C:\command.com

Do not delete files from your computer because a forwarded email tells you to.

Do not do anything or refrain from doing anything because a forwarded email tells you to.

Do not believe anything you read in a forwarded email.

Do not re-forward anything that gets forwarded to you -- except jokes.

It makes no difference who forwarded it to you.

It makes no difference whatever claims to have been authenticated by any authority are in the forwarded email.

If you have already deleted the file there are directions on how to restore it at www.mcafee.com and I'm sure there are at www.symantec.com too.

If you ever have any doubt that a forwarded email is a hoax you can check them out at www.urbanlegends.com and www.snopes.com -- both websites are also very instructive and entertaining reading.
 
Or switch to a Unix variant Linux/BSD/whatever, and end your virus and computer crashing forever...
 
Originally posted by swede79
Or switch to a Unix variant Linux/BSD/whatever, and end your virus and computer crashing forever...
Click to expand...

Hmmmm. That sounds like a Real Souped Up WebTV!!!!!!:D:D:D:D

;) :rolleyes: :p

Just a joke. Walosi will know what I mean, and to the rest of y'all I'm just sorta tzn.:)

Or then again Walosi and some boys are doing some things on the sly and the last laff is on me.:D

Snopes is an excellent website among the ones who help us out by checking hoaxes and viruses.
If something comes in no matter from whom I always check it against anything I find there and I have yet Not to find what I was looking for.
And I'm told it's a good idea to run a virus scan about once a week anyway whether you need to or not.
 
Switching to Unix has advantages, but immunity to viruses or to crashes are not among them. It is impossible to design a system that you can't write a virus to infect (and also impossible to design a virus that can infect any system, so the war between virus programmers and anti-virus programmers will go on forever, or until everybody loses interest). It might be possible to design an operating system that never crashes unless infected by a virus, but we are a long way from achieving that. Sorry....
 
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