please note. When Is A Virus Not A Virus
Jun. 1st, 2001 01:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
scottobearhttp://www.msnbc.com/news/580455.asp
The newest email virus hitting the Web doesn't even have a virus attached to it. In fact, it isn't even *about* a virus.
An email making the rounds warns Windows users they should immediately delete a file on their computers called Sulfnbk.exe because it's a virus undetectable by any software inoculation - and that's because it's not a virus, its an applet that changes short file names back into long ones.
But people are forwarding the message to all their friends to be, what, helpful or something.
don't spread the fraud.
The newest email virus hitting the Web doesn't even have a virus attached to it. In fact, it isn't even *about* a virus.
An email making the rounds warns Windows users they should immediately delete a file on their computers called Sulfnbk.exe because it's a virus undetectable by any software inoculation - and that's because it's not a virus, its an applet that changes short file names back into long ones.
But people are forwarding the message to all their friends to be, what, helpful or something.
don't spread the fraud.
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Date: 2001-06-01 10:19 am (UTC)Re:
Date: 2001-06-01 10:20 am (UTC)oh, and I'd be happy to 'earthquakeinate' jordan.
did you want googly eyes, too?
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Date: 2001-06-01 10:26 am (UTC)Oh yeah, the googly eyes if possible. I'll have him pick a picture over the next few days and send it to you. Thanks Scotto!
PS... he just told me we have to take a new picture so that it looks like yours. He's really good at this stalking stuff!
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Date: 2001-06-01 11:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2001-06-01 10:21 am (UTC)They've got messages all over the halls & elevators here at work about the big June 1, Sulfnbk.exe "virus". ;)
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Date: 2001-06-01 10:23 am (UTC)or at least... don't let 'em goof up yours.
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Date: 2001-06-01 10:53 am (UTC)Oi!
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Date: 2001-06-03 08:18 am (UTC)