Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Virus Hoax.
Posted by
Alison & Jim Gregg
on 2002-01-24 21:12:04 UTC
Hi All.
The file SulphBxn or whatever it was, is part of the Windows operating
system which handles large file names. If you delete it you partially
interfere with the operation of Windows.
Please do NOT pass on virus warnings without checking with Symantec or
whoever that it IS a genuine virus not a hoax - the authors have succeeded
in their objective if they get you to mess up your own computer without
them having to go to the effort to write a virus to do it!
Last time this one did the rounds there was a very nasty follow up which
invited you to go to a web site to down load a fix for the deletion you had
done. If you did this you downloaded a real virus.
Jim Gregg.
At 07:16 PM 1/24/02 +0000, you wrote:
The file SulphBxn or whatever it was, is part of the Windows operating
system which handles large file names. If you delete it you partially
interfere with the operation of Windows.
Please do NOT pass on virus warnings without checking with Symantec or
whoever that it IS a genuine virus not a hoax - the authors have succeeded
in their objective if they get you to mess up your own computer without
them having to go to the effort to write a virus to do it!
Last time this one did the rounds there was a very nasty follow up which
invited you to go to a web site to down load a fix for the deletion you had
done. If you did this you downloaded a real virus.
Jim Gregg.
At 07:16 PM 1/24/02 +0000, you wrote:
>Message: 5
> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 08:10:54 -0700
> From: "Smoke" <smoke@...>
>Subject: Re: Re: VIRUS WARNING.
>
>Yep, definitely a hoax. Just from curiosity, I looked up the file. Mines
>been there since 1998. Smoke
>
> > THIS IS A HOAX! See:
> >
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