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Old May 25th, 2001, 08:13 AM
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I received this today, and thought I should let everyone here know.


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"Hello,

Today, after a friend's call, I found a virus on my pc named: sulf
it is programmed to erase your hd on 25-mai-2001 (yes tomorrow) and has been spreading through email. Virus scanners dont find it, it CAN be found by entering sulf in your file search (at least in Windows) it will probably find a file called sulfnbk.exe GET RID OF IT and dont forget to remove it from your trashcan!

Go on to your desktop and press F3 to bring the search menu up.


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Old May 25th, 2001, 08:21 AM
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got the same e-mail, found the file and got rid of it. Anyone know how the hell this happened??? I only download stuff I know about, I WANT to find out where this came from and how I can avoid this in the future!

Glad I read my email b4 I went to bed!

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Old May 25th, 2001, 08:29 AM
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This is a hoax. The file is a Windows utility. Check out this info on the Symantec website:
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/ven...e.warning.html

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Is this some sick joke? That file you mentioned I checked on my computer. It just happens to have been installed on my computer the day I upgraded to WinME like ALL the other files in there.

Someone must have been trying to trick you into erasing something important, since they couldn't infect you. Quite devious. Or is it that you folks are trying to trick us into doing it?

I'd love to know what other people think.
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Thanks raynor... knew it had to be.
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Old May 25th, 2001, 08:34 AM
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oh lovely, damn I feel gullable now. I erased that file. I hope like hell this dosn't mean I have to re-intall windows.

Grrrrr.
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Oh hahahahah. >: I am not ammused. Oh well, live and learn.
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Just look for the deleted file at: http://search.microsoft.com/us/SearchMS25.asp?so=RECCNT&qu=sulfnbk.exe&qu=sulfnbk.exe+&boolean=ALL&i=00&i=02&i=04&i=06&i=08&i=01&i=03&i=05&i=07&i=09&p=1&nq=WITHIN&fqu=EXE%252 6SULFN BK

Once you load the page, TELL IT too search again.



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that search didn't work for me, can you just link to the DL site?
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Yes, please post it!
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