I have read these Virus posts with trepidation, expecting the worst at
any second...
I think that funny "sulfnbk" icon is meant to be the letters "lfnbk" -
if you look at Properties for the file it seems to be the case though
the "b" is suss.
Cheers
Nicholas
----- Original Message -----
From: Peter Howard <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2001 11:54 PM
Subject: Re: so what is it?
> 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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