Jeez, Kent, if weird email messages are the symptom I must be Typhoid Mary.
Mark
At 04:19 PM 6/1/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>Well, OK, as a follow-up there is this. It seems it both is and is not a
>hoax...
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>kent
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>>From: Eliot Weinberger <[log in to unmask]>
>>To: [log in to unmask]>
>>Subject: The virus and the hoax
>>Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 17:14:03 -0400
>>
>>Since I did indeed get the virus connected to SULFNBK.EXE, many people have
>>been sending me either the warning message or the message that the warning
>>message is a hoax.
>>
>>Please note here are two different things:
>>
>>On one side, there is a very real virus, which is sent as a SULFNBK.EXE
>>file and which will lodge in your computer and automatically send itself to
>>everyone on your e-mail list along with random selections from your
>>files.(Which is the virus I had).
>>
>>On the other side, all Windows programs have a legitimate file called
>>SULFNBK.EXE which does something about long file names, and is not very
>>important.
>>
>>If you have NOT received an e-mail with a SULFNBK.EXE attachment which you
>>clicked on, there is no problem. Your SULFNBK.EXE file is normal. (You must
>>click on the attachment to get the virus; just opening the e-mail will not
>>do it.)
>>
>>If you did, or think you did, go to Windows Explorer, find the file, and
>>see if the SULFNBK.EXE has been modified recently. (Or you'll know if
>>friends start complaining about getting weird e-mails from you.) You should
>>delete it, and then empty the trash. If for some reason you need it again,
>>you can reinstall it from the Windows program.
>>
>>As for the June 1 crash date-- which is probably a hoax, but who knows
>>yet?-- it will only apply to those infected with the virus. And if you have
>>it, believe me, you already know it.
>>
>>In short, it is not a hoax in that the virus lodges in this file once it is
>>received, and it is a hoax in terms of the warning to EVERYONE to delete
>>it.
>>
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