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SERGEANT JOE FRIDAY REPORTS: "SULFNBK.EXE" Virus Letter a Hoax
Posted on Friday, December 21 @ 14:53:05 EST by jfbailey
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Sergeant Joe Friday Reports Update, Dec. 21:A WPCNR reader contacted us to advise that the "SULFNBK.EXE" virus warning making rounds is a hoax, and the Sergeant has confirmed that with Symantec Corporation, the virus security firm.
The reader advised us that she had received the same e-mail and was about to delete the suspect SULFNBK.EXE file. However, her husband, a computer expert apparently checked with Symantec and discovered the letter itself was classified as a hoax. She advised WPCNR after reading our report, and Symantec confirms that this email letter is officially a hoax.
Symantec reports that this hoax letter originated in Brazil, and is intended to create anxiety and concern, which it does very well.
If you followed the instructions and found and deleted the SULFNBK.EXE file, Symantec reports there is no harm done to your computer. The file is little used and is used only to restore long file names on your computer. Symantec advises you do not have to restore the file, but provides instructions on how to do so.
For the Symantec "take" on this annoying hoax, go to:
http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/sulfnbk.exe.warning.html
Sergeant Joe Friday Reports is the consumer investigator column for WPCNR.
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