IMPORTANT: avoiding virus hoaxes

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A message to all of you. Please, before you warn anyone about a

 

computer virus

bomb scare

terrorist food poisoning

etc.

 

Please take 3 minutes to check a source like the Urban Legends reference page

(there are several other good ones also) to make sure that it has not already

been detected as a hoax. False alarms about computer viruses and the like are

major wasters of electric energy because they grow so quickly exponentially.

 

If you receive a warning -- check first. If you find it is a hoax, please

notify the sender and encourage them to check first next time, before notifying

you.

 

your servant,

 

Hare Krsna dasi

 

"Prithu (das) ACBSP" wrote:

 

> > > 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