VIRUS ALERT

[aztruck]

VIRUS ALERT!!! The virus goes under the name of sulfnbk.exe and may be resident on YOUR hard drive. It waits for 14 days and then deletes your hard disc.. .Norton wont get it.. .It propogates via your address book without you even knowing.. .Go to start and hit find or search

In the search for files or folders bit type sulfnbk.exe

Make sure you are looking in drive C

Hit search or find.

The virus will be a nasty black icon with sulfnbk.exe alongside

DO NOT OPEN IT!!!!

Right click on the file and go down to "delete" then left click

you will be asked if you wish to send it to the recycle bin. say yes.

back on the desktop right click on the recycle bin and either empty it or manuaqlly delete the sulfnbk.exe program.

Now you have to email everyone in your address book because they too have probably been infected.

P.S. if it doesnt show up on a first search try "new search" just in case. <img src="eek.gif" border="0">

[Land After]

It's a hoax.

Norton has got it taped. . [quote] . .Symantec Security Response encourages you to ignore any messages regarding this hoax. It is harmless and is intended only to cause unwarranted concern. . .<hr></blockquote>

Details at:. .<a href="http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/sulfnbk.exe.warning.html" target="_blank">http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/sulfnbk.exe.warning.html</a>

[aztruck]

DONT PANIC MR MAINWARING!!! I've just been informed that this is a hoax virus by ...well I shall sper the blushes and reserve them for myself. Better delete this thread or lock it (or me ) up!!

[CI300]

This warning is a hoax. DO NOT DELETE THIS FILE.. .from symantec:

Symantec Security Response encourages you to ignore any messages regarding this hoax. It is harmless and is intended only to cause unwarranted concern.

Type: Hoax

. .Description:

The following hoax email was first reported in Brazil, and the original email was in Portuguese. Other language versions are in circulation. Currently, the English language versions are most common.

. .CAUTIONS:

This particular email message is a hoax. The file that is mentioned in the hoax, however, Sulfnbk.exe, is a Microsoft Windows 95/98/Me utility that is used to restore long file names, and like any .exe file, it can be infected by a virus that targets .exe files.

NOTE: The Sulfnbk.exe file is not required to run Windows. It may be necessary if you need to restore long file names if the file names become corrupted. For additional information, read the Microsoft Knowledge Base article Description of Sulfnbk.exe and How to Replace the Program File (Q301316)

The virus/worm W32.Magistr.24876@mm can arrive as an attachment named Sulfnbk.exe. The Sulfnbk.exe file used by Windows is located by default in the C:\Windows\Command folder.

[No Mode Charlie]

Nooooooooooooooooo, not again <img src="mad.gif" border="0">

Do not delete this file, do not read the above post. Whoever came up with this so called "virus" message is having the time of his life and in a pub somewhere telling his buddies how he had a laugh and send this fluke message to someone he knew and now the the message has circled the globe 45 times. The file mentioned is a system file! Not very important but everybody has got it because it's supposed to be there! So don't delete it and don't send a copy of the message to everybody you know. Even here on the Pprune this is thread number 8 about this "virus" me thinks.

Oh well

[Unwell_Raptor]

No need to be embarrassed Aztruck; there is a delete facility!

It's saved my blushes a few times <img src="redface.gif" border="0">

[Knold]

When can we start discussing issues that acctualy relate to Professional Pilots and not computers?

[aztruck]

Now