Anyone get the new "virus"

[HAL9000]

I have to love this one. People all over town getting an e-mail today telling them all about the new virus that will erase your hard drive (seems they all do that). It tells you to do a search for the file SULFNBK.EXE and that if you find it, it's definitely a virus (probably confirmed by a friend of a friend's brother's friend's uncle's dad's sister in law's nephew's wife's cousin). Well, it's a standard file in the C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND directory. It's a utility to restore long file names.

[Kubie]

Darn it, Hal!! I'll just betcha I got the new virus.:D
Carl

[Statica]

Hmm .. looks like the ppl who propagate them read PCMech. I had just spoken abt the PE_MAGISTR.A in the Internet/WWW forum, and now look at whats going on..

[Chris in U.K.]

Yup, found it and deleted it. No problems so far. As you say, it lives in Windows\Command. It must be fairly cunning, as I also found it on my assistant's machine, which is LAN-ed to mine. She accesses user files on my machine but can't access e-mail or internet....I think I've been had......??? *But* how come I've never noticed it before, and what about the very non-Gates-type icon?

Chris

[Xayd]

Got it several times here at work in support mail from the morons that auto forward this crap to everything in their Outlook contact list (including our support address of course).

I think the best one was a reply that said...


I'm sorry about the previous email, apprently it wasn't a virus but a Windows file so now I'll have to figure out how to reinstall it.

Sorry for the inconvenience, next time I'll ask a computer guy before sending out the warnings.


They'll never learn, will they...

Xayd

[HAL9000]

I had 3 corporate clients ask me to come out and put the file back after they deleted it, then found out it was a joke. I keep telling them not to listen to those kind of e-mails. Oh well, their stupidity, my $150 per stop.

[Parangles]

Wifes mailbox is full of it. Forwarded with each persons entire address directory. Great way for someone to collect a lot of addresses for
spamming, Eh?

[Gintaras]

You can read these days about deleting SULFNBK.EXE on almost every forum

I've received a few e-mails about too.

Really good method for spammers to collect e-mail addies.

[archie]

One of my neighbour's sent it to everyone in her address book. "Big emergency, URGENT ... it wipes out EVERYTHING on the hard drive." :D

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

[HAL9000]

You know... I have my friends do this on a constant basis. I keep telling them that the real virus is the operator behind the keyboard that sees it, then spams everyone on their contact list. It is a virus, but relies on the user to help plug up e-mail servers, or in this case, to follow the "virus" instuction code to go search for the file and manually delete it. Oh well, 4 more calls on the phone this morning, it's going to be a good week.

[Hosie]

The only thing that exceeds the number of times I recieved this e-mail, is the number of e-mails I have gotten asking how to put the file back now that they all realize what they did..

why learn to code and write a virus when you can write and e-mail and convince people to screw up their computers on thier own... it is almost genious!