On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, david.bircumshaw wrote...
>Yes, Kent, whether a staggering swastika or a stylized elephant, the icon
>doesn't look 'right' to me. Now quite possibly MS did throw a wobbly and
>gave one of their files a strange icon, but it doesn't seem like them to
>have done so. I'd like to hear from people with pc's, not thise lucky mac
>users , who've succesfully re-started their machines since yesterday.
Well I have a PC, and it has sulfnbk.exe, complete with its strange
icon, where it's supposed to be. I haven't noticed any ill effects on my
computer.
I've heard it reported that the hoaxers deliberately chose this file
because of its icon, which would be likely to make people think it's
dodgy. Excel has its famous flight simulator if you press the right
buttons, and there are similar "Easter Eggs" hidden in various other
Microsoft products. So it's hardly unprecedented of MS to include a bit
of embedded silliness.
(Go to http://www.eeggs.com/ if you don't believe me.)
"the proper functioning of Windows" sounds a bit like a contradiction in
terms to me, Kent. If you search on Microsoft's site, there's a
description of sulfnbk.exe as a utility for restoring long file names
after you've de-installed Windows. That doesn't sound terribly
fundamental to me.
--
Peter
http://www.hphoward.demon.co.uk/poetry/
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