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THE ITEM BELOW HAS TURNED OUT TO A HOAX. SORRY. I DID CHECK WITH MY LOCAL COMPUTER GURU AND HE SAID THAT HIS COMPUTER DIDN'T SHOW THE FILE AND THAT WHERE IT WAS SHOWING UP WAS WRONG in my system it was in the windows/command folder and he said that it shouldn't be there. others that i rang said they did a search and that it wasn't on their system.
sorry for everybodies trouble if you did delete it there is a solution further down this posting
Hi heads on and all I got the email below from someone today and checked my hard drive and the virus was there so anyone on the board that I had contact with might want to check their hard drive. I don’t know what the virus does nor do I want to.
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An un-detected virus was sent to me and found on my computer as still live.
The virus only activates on 1 June 2001 and will not be detected by your ant-virus protection. It copies through the address book on your computer, when mails are sent, and settles in drive C.
You need to delete this virus before June 1 and also alert everybody on your address book.
To delete:
Click on Start
Click on Find
Click on Folders and files
Select "C" and type SULFNBK.EXE
Start Search
If file is found - DO NOT OPEN
Delete
Once deleted - EMPTY RECYCLE BIN.
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'To be born once is natural, To be born twice, now that's a miracle. ------------------------------------- From the sometimes sunny south of Ireland,
[This message has been edited by Miles Cullinane (edited May 28, 2001).]
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Well, I hope that sucker was a virus. I found it on my system too. The icon for it did look strange. Looked like four or five crudely drawn letters arranged in a square. It was in my windows folder. I just put in a new hard drive this weekend, so dang if I know how it got there already, unless it was on the original windows disk. Hmmmmm.. better check into this one.
UPDATE:SULFNBK.EXE Warning Reported on: April 17, 2001 Last Updated on: May 15, 2001 at 05:28:25 PM PDT
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The following hoax email has been reported in Brazil. The original email is in Portuguese; it is followed by an English translation.
CAUTION: This particular email message is a hoax. The file that is mentioned in the hoax, however, Sulfnbk.exe, is a Microsoft Windows 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
Shoulda went there before I deleted it. Dang Glenn, we got to work faster next time.
------------------ John Deaton III Deaton Design 109 N. Cumberland Ave.,Harlan, Ky. 40831 606-573-9101
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Geez...................I found it too. Thank you!
------------------ St.Marie Graphics & Makin' Tracks Sound Studio Kalispell, Montana stmariegraphics@centurytel.net http://www.stmariegraphics.com 800 735-8026 We're chiseling every day of the week! :^)
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When I first read this post I figured I'd wait til Doctor Glenn posted a reply so I'd get the real story....... Woof Woof, thanks Glenn
------------------ HotLines Joey Madden,47 years in the Classic Art of Pinstriping Grants Pass, Oregon Learn something...... http://members.tripod.com/Inflite
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Sulfnbk.exe, is a Microsoft Windows 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. But in this case they the Hoaxers picked a file that naturally everyone with windows would have.
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Yeah!............See what happens when you don't wait for the Doctor?? Treat yourself anc cut off your thingie! Geez.........
So now that my "thingie" is deleted, what happens next, Glenn? I can't restore my supercalifragilisticexpealidocious files?
------------------ St.Marie Graphics & Makin' Tracks Sound Studio Kalispell, Montana stmariegraphics@centurytel.net http://www.stmariegraphics.com 800 735-8026 We're chiseling every day of the week! :^)
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If you haven't deleted the file from the "waste basket", you should be able to restore it from there. If you have deleted it completely, I suppose the proper thing to do is to reinstall Windows.
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Well, I got to quick on the gun too. I deleted the file and then emptied the recycled bin. Naturally, I find out it's a hoax after that. Norton Unerase is useless as usual. So I went to my other computer on my home network and copied and pasted it into the Windows/Command folder. Everything is back to normal. I did try to copy it to a floppy but for some reason that didn't work. My suggestion to those that deleted it to try and do that with a floppy, if you have access to another machine with the same OS. It should exist somewhere on the Windows Cd, I would think, though might be compressed.
------------------ Wright Signs Wyandotte, Michigan Since 1978 www.wrightsigns.bigstep.com All change isn't progress, and all progress isn't forward.
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If you alredy deleted it...try this: 1. go to "Start" then "Find" 2. type in ?ulfbk.exe 3. click "Find Now" 4. when it finds it, right click on it and then click "Copy" 5. open C:\Windows\Command using My Computer or Windows Explorer, and paste it 6. click on it to highlite it, then click "File", then click "Rename" 7. change the "?" to an "s"
werked fer me after I deleted it before reading Glenn's post
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If'n ya done deleted it, and can't find it, or undelete it, Email me at:
siallen@mindspring.com
and I will Email ya back a copy!
...and tell ya wrere ta stick it!
I mean where it put it in yer puter!
------------------ Si Allen #562 La Mirada, CA. USA (714) 521-4810 ICQ # 330407 "SignPainters do It with Longer Strokes!"
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I deleted it too (AND emptied the recycle bin!) Not all of us are awake enough this morning to think to read everyone elses comments...... I've got windows ME....I might be able to go back to earlier today and restore it.... I'll remember to not be to quick to delete something till I know it's for real or not. Not trying to jump on Miles, he was only trying to help. A
------------------ Adrienne Morgan Splash Signs www.splashsigns.com "Rainkatt'on chat
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Looks like I am one of the few smarties on the BB! When in doubt, wait for the Doctor!
Woof Woof, Doctor G.........
------------------ HotLines Joey Madden,47 years in the Classic Art of Pinstriping Grants Pass, Oregon Learn something...... http://members.tripod.com/Inflite
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GUYS! WHAT ARE YOU DOING!! I wish I had read this earlier. It just SCREAMS HOAX! (as I slap myself in the forehead) A clock triggered virus wouldn't BE an executable file. ARGH!! Never, ever, ever, delete an executable file (anything.exe) if you don't know what it is. If this hoax would have told you to delete win.ini or command.com, how many of you would have done it? Wait.....don't answer that.....I don't even want to know. Never, never, never.....
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It's baaaaaack!! I did the restore function and it's all back where it belongs...I was wondering why when I looked at it's properties the date was so long ago.....the same time I had Windows ME intalled on this new hard drive.....oh well...no harm done. A
------------------ Adrienne Morgan Splash Signs www.splashsigns.com "Rainkatt'on chat
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Started reading this thread, wrote down file name & was going to rename; but then continued reading messages stating it was just a hoax. I can't help those who've lost the file, but it might be on Windows disk or downloadable from Microsoft.
Just remember (next time) that you can render a file useless by renaming .exe to something like .exx or .ex~ or any other extension which isn't recognized by windows/dos. The file would still be on HD & all you have to do is rename back to .exe.
------------------ Bill Cosharek Bill Cosharek Signs 1031 Whitehead Lane N.Huntingdon,Pa 15642 bcosharek@juno.com
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WARNING: Bad Times Virus found online. If you receive an e-mail with a subject line of "Badtimes," delete it immediately WITHOUT reading it. This is the MOST DANGEROUS Email virus yet. It will re-write your hard drive. Not only that, but it will scramble any discs that are even close to your computer. It will recalibrate your refrigerator's coolness setting so all your ice cream melts and milk curdles. It will demagnetize the strips on all your credit cards, reprogram your ATM access code, screw up the tracking on your VCR and use subspace field harmonics to scratch any CDs you try to play. It will give your ex-boy/girlfriend your new phone number. It will mix antifreeze into your fish tank. It will drink all your beer and leave its dirty socks on the coffee table when there's company coming over. It will hide your car keys when you are late for work and interfere with your car radio so that you hear only static while stuck in traffic. Badtimes will make you fall in love with a hardened pedophile. It will give you nightmares about circus midgets. It will replace your shampoo with Draino, all while dating your current boy/girlfriend behind your back and billing their hotel rendezvous to your Visa card. It will seduce your grandmother. It does not matter if she is dead, such is the power of Badtimes, it reaches out beyond the grave to sully those things we hold most dear. Badtimes will give you Foot & Mouth disease. It will leave the toilet seat up and leave the hairdryer plugged in dangerously close to a full bathtub. It will wantontly remove the "forbidden to remove" tags from your mattresses and pillows, and replace your skim milk with whole. It is insidious and subtle. It is dangerous and terrifying to behold. It is also a rather interesting shade of mauve.These are just a few signs. Be very, very afraid.
------------------ Gray M. Hodge Cam River Signs Somerset, Tasmania.
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