On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Dennis wrote:
> [Just to be on the safe side -- DP]
There are my fave: viruses that operate on the honor system. This hoax is asking you to do its work for it and delete one of your useful files, the one that recognizes long file names.
F-Secure Hoax Information Pages: Sulfnbk.exe virus hoax
NAME: Sulfnbk.exe virus hoax
ALIAS: Long File Name Backup utility virus hoax
In April-May 2001 there appeared a hoax message concerning a new virus
that was reportedly discovered in Windows' Long File Name Backup
utility SULFNBK.EXE. We checked several versions of this utility from
Windows installations and found no infection in it. Here's the
original hoax message:
[which you guys have already just seen]
Michael
__________________________________________________________________________ Michael Pollak................New York City..............mpollak at panix.com