Sulfnbk.exe June 1,2001 - Real or hoax?

[Joker1]

i've had two people call today that had deleted their SULFNBK

some people are so gullible

it would be better if it said to delete all the .com files in the root directory

[Jeff the Brit]

I spent much of yesterday walking people through reinstalling the file. Phone and ICQ went crazy!

[WesFlash]

Now that it has past us let's try this to keep us in the right frame of mind. Use AOL for two months. Yep, 2 months. Why? That way you will, by that time, have gotten enough buddies that are only on AOL to add you to their lists so that you will see a couple hoaxes a week by the end of your trial period. Oh yeah, try it for one month and then call to cancel. AOL many times gives you another month to hook you in. Really. I used to use AOL, until 5 years ago. AOL probably hasn't changed that much since then. So, after two months you will start to see where some of these hoaxes get their steam from and get an idea of the "average" user that you don't get calls from on a (fill in your fovorite) basis. Slashdotters may joke that MS is like the borg, but they are the technicly advanced faction of the borg, AOL's borg faction is populated by more than techies. Resistance is futile...... uh, not accepting them is futile.....yeh, that's it.

[Backspace]

Originally posted by xPoseidonx:
<STRONG>What concerns me is some jerk could write a REAL virus and embed it into the sulfbnk.exe file. Then just when everyone believes it to be a hoax - bam! You get hit with the real thing.</STRONG>

This has happened, the same day I warned some corporate customers of this, there norton corporate software caught this virus coming in as that same file name of the hoax pretty scary if you ask me. The virus was the W32.Magistr.24876@mm

[DeaJae]

hmmm i know this SULFNBK.EXE was distributed with windows 95 + (cabs directory- used for backing up long filenames?¿ i think).i say get microsoft to provide a list of what files do what, filesize etc, then we can control this ourselfs.

[charlescpu]

Relax everybody......that's a file that everyone has on their computer and that file makes the short names in DOS. If you do not open any .exe attachment you'll don't have any problem! Believe me!

......Intel rules!!!!!

By the way, Norton don't detect that virus!

[DeaJae]

yer, your safe as long a user.exe, win.com, explorer.exe aren't run..
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[Poseidon]

Originally posted by one_w/_keyboard:
<STRONG>

This has happened, the same day I warned some corporate customers of this, there norton corporate software caught this virus coming in as that same file name of the hoax pretty scary if you ask me. The virus was the W32.Magistr.24876@mm</STRONG>

Now that is scary.

BTW - My boss was receiving a variant of the Magistr virus almost daily. Which, (knock on wood), we have thus far stopped.
It has gotten to the point where he sends a reply (with a 'fake' return address) not only asking his name to be deleted from the sender's address book; but also a link to a free online virus scan from Trend Micro. It has helped somewhat, but he still receives at least three to four a week.

[Stalemate]

Originally posted by xPoseidonx:
[QB]Now that is scary.

BTW - My boss was receiving a variant of the Magistr virus almost daily...QB]

I've had a few instances of this one with the random text in French. One of the scariest ones I've seen in a while.

The SULFNBK.EXE hoax has also been a pain in the keister. One tech friend had been deleting this file on his home network when I told him it was a hoax. You'd think he'd be careful to check this with SARC first <IMG SRC="smilies/rolleyes.gif" border="0">

Another contact had sent the hoax to his entire address book after deleting it also. He is Quality Assurance Coordinator for 3 plants. Can you imagine the damage?

I actually had an "e-mail argument" with another user who insisted this was a true virus occurence, even though I sent him all the links to check it through Norton and McAfee. He even sent me a pasted article stating that it *was* a hoax as an argument to the contrary.

Is it not strange (or idiotic) to mistrust McAfee, SARC and myself (network manager) as sources of information but to blindly obey a forwarded e-mail sent out by some goofball and erase system files on a PC? <IMG SRC="smilies/mad.gif" border="0">

People, I tell ya...