Aliases: None known as at 18th. March 2004
Variants: None known as at 18th. March 2004
Date Added: Tuesday, May 22, 2001
Further Information:
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SubType: E-mail
Risk Assessment: Low
Virus Hoax Coaxes Users to Delete
Files
Kaspersky Labs has been receiving many messages from users about
a new alarming and dangerous virus hiding in a SULFNBK.EXE file. It is
necessary to convince users that this type of virus does
not actually exist, and we classify this as a virus hoax.
Warnings about the pseudo-virus began spreading towards the end of
last week, causing a real scare amongst users. As indicated in the message’s
text concerning the "virus," it contains a SULFNBK.EXE file that is programmed
to activate the destructive payload on June 1. As is typical when a virus
hoax is making the rounds, it is reported that not one anti-virus program
is able to detect this "virus"; therefore, the only means of ridding a
computer of this threat is to erase the SULFNBK.EXE virus-carrying file.
Contrary to this report, the SULFNBK.EXE file is absolutely safe,
and moreover is a part of the operating system included in the Windows
delivery. The program is a Windows application used for backup files with
long file names. By deleting this file, a user causes
a change in the system function as a whole, causing several operations
on the computer to be rendered inoperable.
In addition to this, as reported by SecurityPortal.com—the popular
information center for problems regarding information safety—its experts
have been able to receive the original SULFNBK.EXE file and establish the
reason for this hoax appearance. It turned out that this file on the user's
computer, who initiated the hoax, was really infected with the Magistr
virus, currently found in the virus list of the most widespread viruses.
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The information in this bulletin is provided "AS IS" without warranty
of any kind. In no event shall we be liable for any damages whatsoever
including direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, loss of business
profits or special damages.
Type: Hoax
IMPORTANT NOTE: If
you happen to be one of the victims of this hoax and have deleted your
SULFNBK.EXE file just go here and you will be able to re-install
again in less than 5 minutes !
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