Don't Believe Everything You Read in Your E-mail

[rejectomorph]

Some friends of mine have apparently been victims of a virus hoax. Or maybe not. Someone has started a chain of e-mail which informs people that their computers may be infected with a latent virus, and that a particular file should be deleted. The problem is, the SULFNBK file is part of the Windows system, and may or may not be infected. A lot of people are apparently deleting the file for no good reason. More information on the hoax in this Sophos Article: SULFNBK: Virus or Hoax . . .or both?"

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Re: Yup...I was taken in.

[yansa.livejournal.com]

It's a file that restores and backs up information about "long file names" -- for example, if you have a file that is named "Von Schmecken.txt", Windows knows that file as something like "vonsch~1.txt" (for a variety of obscure technical reasons). For Windows to be able to remember the longer name, it uses SULFNBK.EXE.

--yansa!
... I work on a computer help desk, and about 1/5 of the calls I took last week were about the SULFNBK.EXE virus hoax