On 29/10/2011 09:19, Tony Moss wrote:
Hi all,
Son Dave tells me that his computer has been BADLY affected
by a virus? which evaded all protection ware and did serious damage to
his system. It takes the form of a very convincing notification from
FedEx about an undelivered item. You
Hi all,
Son Dave tells me that his computer has been BADLY affected by
a virus? which evaded all protection ware and did serious damage to his
system. It takes the form of a very convincing notification from FedEx
about an undelivered item. You have to fill in all of your details
That virus warning is a hoax. Note that the sulfnbk.exe file it tells you
to delete is actually a Microsoft file that is part of Windows. If you
delete it, your ability to use long file names may be ruined. From
Symantec --
Description: The following hoax email was first reported in
Gordon,
I was a bit suspicious because of the advice to spread the message to all
persons on one's mailing list - which I refrained to do - but not suspicous
enough to check out the name of the virus.
Well, I'll try now to reinstall "sulfnbk". What a loss of time!
Thanks ver
Hello All,
Apparently the virus thing is bound to pop up once in a while, and this
particular alert seems to have been around for some time.
Anyone who does not know how to routinely "go to the mountain" and check
on the validity of this type of alert can go to the link below and
Folks,
The warning is a HOAX!!! sulfnbk.exe is NOT a virus. Do NOT delete it.
Please read the explanation at the URL below. This is provided by
Australia's largest ISP.
http://www.bigpond.com/Home/Rockpool/Newsletters/Newsletter.asp?Art=/res/doc
/h/news/issue64.txt&Image=#1
You wil
lter.jonckheere" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Cc: "colette philippo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2002 9:53 AM
Subject: Fw: virus
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "walter.jonckheere" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EM
Fernando Cabral wrote:
>
> Since I wrote a message about hoaxes I have been bugged
> [...]
>
> The only acceptable attitudes about virus and hoaxes are:
>
> 1) Delete them
> 2) If you want to know for sure if it is a real virus or a hoax,
>check some of t
Fernando,
You have said it most correctly.
Thanks!
Edley.
Message text written by Steve Irick
>I thought that the general response created the atmosphere that
notification was appreciated, real or
hoax.<
I too would opt for hearing of a possible risk.
However, the way to handle this sort of thing in my view is to rely on your
anti-virus packag
Ron Anthony wrote:
>
> However, I must disagree that you should supress the news of a real virus
> that has infected
> your computer. Just as with human viruses, the infection speads to those you
> know the best.
> And just with human viruses, you have a duty to notify
I guess that there have been more private emails about the subject of
alerting friends to a possible or real virus. I thought that the general
response created the atmosphere that notification was appreciated, real or
hoax.
I coach kids baseball every now and then and there's one
Fenando,
I agree that the forwarding of virus alerts are the best way to spread hoaxes
and should be curbed. After all, a hoax is a bad meme, and spreading it does
no one any good.
However, I must disagree that you should supress the news of a real virus that
has infected your computer
nformation and education about how virus and hoaxes work
should help. Maybe it is the only thing that will help.
Nevertheless, since MOST messages about virus are, in
fact, hoax, spreading the "news" is, in fact, spreading
the "virus" itself!
That's why notices about virus
[Technical Support], then
on the Symantic page, click on [Security Response]. Here you will find all kinds
of information about virus threats and a Reference Area where you can find
Hoaxes listed. Click on this and you will find a surprising number of virus
hoaxes out there in cyberspace. If you ha
Steve Irick wrote:
>
> Ladies and Gentlemen:
>
> I would like to thank those who sound a virus alert even though it may turn
> out to be a hoax and especially with the sincerity to include a fix. We
> will collectively sigh a relief when deleted or laugh together if it
I would like to thank those who sound a virus alert even though it may turn
out to be a hoax and especially with the sincerity to include a fix. We
will collectively sigh a relief when deleted or laugh together if its a
joke, but in every case appreciative.
Steve
Yorktown VA
crack this one.
A internaut receive a message that read as follows:
This is a virus. It was developed in Lisbon by a very
competent Portuguese programmer. He is so clever that
he was able to develop this virus even thou he had no
access to the well-kept secret of the art of virus-growing.
So, please
MMB wrote:
>
> Mike Shaw wrote:
> >
> > I have just received this e-mail, and I also found I had this Virus. Sounds
> > as though its worth checking your systems. Just follow the instructions.
>
> I own a Mac so my computer is fortunately immune. However, for
To help thwart these annoying hoaxers, it is worth checking the following site
before forwarding any virus warning messages.
http://vil.mcafee.com/
This contains a library of all viruses - real and hoax, as well as corrective
info.
Totalise - the Users ISP
--
To become a
Mike Shaw wrote:
>
> I have just received this e-mail, and I also found I had this Virus. Sounds
> as though its worth checking your systems. Just follow the instructions.
I own a Mac so my computer is fortunately immune. However, for those of
you with pcs I have pasted below an ext
This "warning message" is a widespread HOAX and is meant to damage your
machine by leading you to believe that a Windows System file is a dormant
virus.
PLEASE DO NOT ACT UPON IT and do not email it to anyone.
SULFNBK.EXE is a system file, please do not delete it.
Andrew James
>
I have just received this e-mail, and I also found I had this Virus. Sounds
as though its worth checking your systems. Just follow the instructions.
Subject: VIRUS WARNING
We have just received the message below from a friend in Australia, and
YES IT WAS ON OUR C:DRIVE. Very easy to
Hi, there
Somebody sent me a couple of messages
that waked up my McCafee AV.
As it wasn't able to clean them it just swept off
the messages... I just could
see something about sundials, so I suppose the
messages came from your list.
Anyway, (s)he who sent me the messages please
updat
Gesendet: Freitag, 30. November 2001 04:53
Betreff: Re: Virus
> Fred,
>
> I was just hit by a virus called '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. I think it came
from some one on the mailing list. I have cleaned it up. It's a sick
world.
>
>
> ++ron
> - Original Message -
Fred,
I was just hit by a virus called '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'. I think it came from
some one on the mailing list. I have cleaned it up. It's a sick world.
++ron
- Original Message -
From: Fred Sawyer
To: Ron Anthony
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 7:
Folks,
I accidentally omitted the URL for the anti-virus software. When Mike Saw
pointed this out, I went looking for it again, but the URL lead nowhere.
Seems that the company no longer distributes it free. Maybe that is the
price of success.
My apologies to you all.
Cheers, John
"Far b
Folks,
A final follow-up from me about Mike Shaw's message re the virus.
Anyone who doesn't have virus software might like to check out the following
FREE program. I haven't used this particular version, but the government
agency I work for runs it on our network. (You know the
Folks,
Further to Mike Shaw's warning re a virus. He is correct, and it is very
easy to get caught with this one, known by the cognoscenti as "SirCam". The
version sent to me had as the subject, material that I would be interested
in. The text was verbatim as Mike described it. Fo
We think we have been the victim of the latest e-mail virus.
So, if you get an e-mail from us (or anyone else for that matter) which says
something like:
"Hello,
I send this to you to ask for your advice"
then delete the e-mail without opening the attachment.
The Shaws
A virus on my machine is sending out email with an attachment. please
do not open it.
The email will probably say:
Hi! How are you.
I send you this file in order to have your advice
See you later. Thanks
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht-
Von: peter ransom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
An: sundial@rrz.uni-koeln.de
Datum: Donnerstag, 27. Jänner 2000 21:59
Betreff: warning notice about a new virus
>I have been told of the following by a reliable source, and hope that it
>comes in time!
>
Tom McHugh wrote:
> I don't know that Microsoft Internet Explorer (3.02a) needs the help
> of a virus to self destruct.
Good! Very good! Excellent!
- fernando
--
Fernando Cabral Padrao iX Sistemas Abertos
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pix.
peter ransom wrote:
>>and there is no remedy. It will eat all your information on
>>the hard drive and also destroys Netscape Navigator and Microsoft >>Internet
>>Explorer.
I don't know that Microsoft Internet Explorer (3.02a) needs the help
of a virus to self destruct.
Tom McHugh
Unfortunately this is a "hoax". This message is pretty standard.
Sometimes they will the change the name of the virus (Wobbler,
in this case), other times the names of the "authorities" will
be changed (AOL and IBM, in this case.)
The virus is the message itself that get
[Peter Ransom forwarded]
>>>NEW VIRUS
>>>
>>>I have received the following message today:
>>>
>>>"We have been informed of a new virus - WOBBLER. It will
>>>arrive on email titled 'How to give your cat a colonic'...[snip]
A v
same principle,
titled 'Elephants and hellebore': it has washed away several
computers in the Chicago area.
BT
comes in time!
Peter Ransom
NEW VIRUS
I have received the following message today:
"We have been informed of a new virus - WOBBLER. It will
arrive on email
titled 'How to give your cat a colonic'.
IBM and AOL have announced that it is very powerful, more so
than Meliss
> - Original Message -
> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 1999 10:47 AM
> Subject: RE: Virus alert : \CoolProgs\Pretty Park.exe
>
>
> > Hello Albert,
> >
> >
Hi Tony,
This is a hoax - another case where the message becomes, in fact, the "virus."
See
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/buddylst.zip.html
Best,
Mac
>Dear All
>
>The following has just been sent to me by a friend of mine - about a
>rather
>nas
Dear All
The following has just been sent to me by a friend of mine - about a
rather
nasty virus.
Apologies if you've already been notified.
Tony Moss
**
Someone is sending out a very desirable screen-saver, the Budweiser Frogs
"BUDDYLST.ZIP". If
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