Klarinet Archive - Posting 000955.txt from 2001/05

From: Jim Bartram <jbartram@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Is this a hoax?
Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 19:10:28 -0400

The potential seriousness of this kind of attack is that it might very well
have asked the recipient to delete a file that is *critical* to the functioning
of Windows (or any other OS), making it impossible to boot their computer.
That's the nastiness of this kind of approach, that it can be used to con
people into trashing their own system.

Any tag-along virus would simply add insult to injury, though I haven't seen
any reports (except below) that suggest it.

--Jim

At 03:49 PM 5/31/01 -0700, you wrote:
>>
>> Yes, it is a VIRUS HOAX.
>
>Well, yes and no
>It is odd but in the past 24 hours I have received a copy of the "hoax"
>letter, and as well another email from another source with the SULFNBK.EXE
>as an attachment, complete with a virus worm.
>
>It seems that both are circulating out there. BE aware that if someone sends
>you any .exe file unannounced that it most surely is a virus. Be wary.
>
>Stephen
>

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