Virus warning

[perchjerker]

Hi guys. Last night I got a email from the address: Hahaha subject line was snow white and the seven dwarfs. I never open mail from people I dont know, luckily my Nortons prescans things anyway. It said the virus sexy virgin.scr was attached.


Never heard of this one, might me new.

Be on the lookout!

[Juls_WI]

That one has been going around for over a year and a half now. I've had that one sent to me at least a dozen times. I don't open any attachments from people I don't know, and sometimes not even from people I do know.

Juls

[perchjerker]

Juls-
I thought the seven dwarfs thing looked familiar. Must be going around again!!

[SUPERTROLLER]

It's that Darn Dopey! He just don't know when to quit!

[chadk66]

There has been tons of virus's going around the past month or so. One I have seen people falling for alot is the hoax virus. You get an email that tells you that you have a virus and to get rid of it you need to delete a file. I can't remember the name of the file exactly off the top of my head but I think it was something like brlnke.exe or something of that nature. After deleteing the file people get a message that it is a hoax. This is a pertinant windows file and you need it so do not delete this.

[perchjerker]

Yea, the name of that file is sulfnbk.exe it is a windows system file that has to do with displaying long file names.

[eyeswon]

I have been lead to beleave that if you put in the address as follows when you get a virus it can not be sent out to anyone because you will get it back as undeliverable mail and you can deleat it. The address is name is * !000 * with address of * viruswarning@ danger.com * You will never use this so if you get it back you know a virus has tried to send it. It will go to the top of your address book and be the first one it will try to send. It sounds like it will work. I have it in mine.

What do you computer experts think

[Leo Kam]

If any of you have removed this file and haven't replaced it, go to htpp://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q301316,
"Description of Sulfnbk.exe & How to Replace the Program File(Q301316)".

[Leo Kam]

This has been shown as not to be reliable on various virus and hoax boards.

[Ya]

Dopey is a horny little bugger

[chadk66]

That particular thing was covered in the december or january issue of pcworld. They say to creat that email address into your address book and make sure it is the top one in the book..Supposedly all when that email is returned it stops all others from being sent and it's return informs you that you had the virus. I'm not sure if it works as advertised but it can't hurt anything.

[Leo Kam]

Chad, the best protection is to have a quality antivirus program install to check your e-mail as it is downloading and putting any virus into quarentine to be dealt with later in one of several ways. If you take the advice above, and the bogus addy works, you have to go looking for it and may not find it until considerable damage has been done. I, myself, would not trust this type of virus notification. Along these same lines, anyone who surfs the internet, should have a good firewall installed to prevent hackers from pinging open ports, preventing unwanted cookies and spyware, protecting personal information, etc.

I'm not trying to start an argument. With the large increase the last couple of years with spam, viruses and hoaxes, I just gewt paranoid.

[MLD]

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