From the Symantec Website: CAUTIONS: 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. The virus/worm W32.Magistr.24876@mm can arrive as an attachment named Sulfnbk.exe. The Sulfnbk.exe file used by Windows is located in the C:\Windows\Command folder. If the file is located in any other folder, or arrives as an attachment to a email message, then it is possible that the file is infected. In this case, if a scan with the latest virus definitions and with NAV set to scan all files does not detect the file as being infected, quarantine and submit the file to SARC for analysis by following the instructions in the document How to submit a file to SARC using Scan and Deliver. If you have deleted the Sulfnbk.exe file from the C:\Windows\Command folder and want to know how to restore the file, see the How to restore the Sulfnbk.exe file section at the end of this document. You can find the rest of this at: http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/sulfnbk.exe.warning.html Sue At 05:38 PM 12/2/2001 -0500, you wrote: >I can't remember who I've sent email to in the last couple of months so >I'm sending this to everyone in my mailbox. Please check your system, I >was really surprised to find that this was on my computer. Read below on >how to get rid of it, and I apologize if you've gotten it. > >Nancy > >Put the profits back in your own pocket >www.Quixtar.com - IBO# 1020072 > > > >----Original Message Follows---- >From: "Susan Jones" <macduff@infi.net> >To: "ANNA \(CHAT\) MIDDLECOTE" <anna_m@blueyonder.co.uk> >Subject: Hidden Timed Virus - Please, Please Read >Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 13:42:38 -0500 > >Hi, > >I am contacting everyone that I may have written in the past month. I just >found out from a trusted friend, that she sent me a hidden, timed activated >virus. It does not matter if you are using Outlook Express or Netscape etc. >As long as you are using Windows instead of Apple, I may have sent it to >you. It does not show up as an attachment on the e-mails and Norton, >McCaffee, etc. did not find it. > >Please click on your start button, go down to find and click on that. Go >over to Files and folders in the next drop-down box. Type in sulfnbk.exe >and click on find. If it comes up, which I hope it does not, right click on >the name and come down to delete. After that is gone, go immediately to >your trash can and dump that. If you don't, the virus is still in your >system. > >I am truly sorry if I sent you a virus. It was not done intentionally. I >will now have to contact all the Lists I am on in case it was passed that >was. I know the Lists do not let attachment through but this does not come >through that way. > >Be sure to contact everyone you have written to or forwarded messages on to >in the past month or two. This friend does not know how long this virus has >been sitting in her computer. She received it from a trusted friend in our >computer club. > > > > > >_________________________________________________________________ >Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp > > >============================== >Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 >Source for Family History Online. Go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=702&sourceid=1237