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

[Guest guest]

> > 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