IMPORTANT: I may have sent you a virus and how to fix it

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Dear Balabhadara Prabhu

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila

Prabhupada.

 

When did you get this virus? Yes we had it, but we don't use the

windows address book, we use one on Pegasus, are all of those

address affected?

YS

Ramiya dasa

[Guest guest]

Thank you. The link you gave is not accessible at least for us. But when I

typed Restore sulfnbk.exe in the seach box for www.google.com I got several

sites dealing with this. If anyone has deleted the file then you can look at

these sites for info. One warning is to not accept an unsolicited e-mail

offering a replacement sulfnbk.exe file as that could contain a trojan virus

or infected file. One of the sites that i looked at

http://www.stiller.com/sulfnbk.htm says it is a DOS program used to restore

long filenames and it is very rarely used. If you have NT or 2000 you do not

need this file at all and it is probably not on your computer. Then it

gives instructions as to how to restore it but says you may decide not to

bother since it is very rarely needed.

 

I typed a long file name and saved it and had no trouble and opened old

files with long names and had no trouble.

 

I got sucked right in to this hoax and then was very concerned to protect

anyone we had written to from this computer. I am greatly sorry for the

inconvenience.

 

Your worthless servant,

Chayadevi

 

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<erinlhull >; (Sri) Mayapur Chandrodaya (Mandir) (India)

<Mayapur.Chandrodaya (AT) pamho (DOT) net>; Ms. Cristina Carolan

<krsnadasi108 >; Nirguna <adri108 (AT) cal3 (DOT) vsnl.net.in>; Retail support

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(das) SDG (Trinidad - IN) <Agni.SDG (AT) pamho (DOT) net>; Baxter Peter (Gerrard)

<Peter.Baxter (AT) gerrard (DOT) com>; <gopala (AT) eunet (DOT) yu>; <lotus (AT) iconet (DOT) com.br>;

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Thursday, January 03, 2002 9:27 AM

IMPORTANT: I may have sent you a virus and how to fix it

 

 

> > > I just received this tonight and found the virus in my C drive and

have

> > > deleted it. The first contact with this person was on December 14, so

> > > any letters received from us before that would not have the

possibility

> > > of having the virus. Please read to find out if you have received it

and

> > > how to get rid of it. Many apologies.

> >

> > Sounds like a hoax to me. Just keep a good anti-virus program on your

> > computer and don't worry about messages like this. Sometimes these

hoaxes

> > tell you to erase perfectly good and valuable exe files on your

harddrive.

> >

> > Your servant, Bhaktarupa Das

>

> yes this is not a virus.

> This email is a hoax.

>

> For those of you who were sucked in as I was, the file you're instructed

to

> delete manipulates long file names.

> So, it doesn't do any "damage" per se,

> just messes up your ability to save files with more than 8 characters in

the

> name.

>

> If you deleted the

> sulfnbk.exe

> as proposed by the hoax message:

>

> here are the instructions for recovering the file:

>

> please go to http://antivirus.about.com/library/weekly/aa052601a.htm and

it

> will tell you how to restore it.

>

> The sulfnbk.exe file comes with your windows program and Window needs it

> to operate it.

>

>

> yspda

[Guest guest]

It was a hoax. The person who started it really had a virus, but it doesn't

mean you have it too. This file if erased will cause a detriment to your OS

operation.

 

Ys