I recently received an email from a relative that informed me that he may have sent me a virus. As I don't remember receiving an attached file from him I was skeptical but when I followed his directions I found that I did indeed have it in my hard drive. Yesterday I sent his instructions for finding and deleting the virus to people I knew I had written to recently and this morning received one response saying that he too had the virus, but didn't remember receiving an attached file from me. I've never heard of a virus being transmitted without an attachment but as I sent a couple of emails to this list I thought I would send my cousins remedy anyway.
Sorry for any inconvienience, here is his letter;
Hey All-
I got a letter from someone on my mailing list saying they had a virus which was probably passed on to me and anyone on my mailing list, ergo...You!! I did indeed have it, so I assume you're cursed also. Its easy to remove and is supposed to be dormant for 2 weeks so here's directions on how to remove it before its a problem:
1.) mash the "start" button on desktop
2.) go to "find or search" button
3.) in "search for files or folders" type in....sulfnbk.exe
4.) make sure your "c" drive (hard drive) is where its looking
5.) it has a black, ugly icon which you'll see, Don't Open It!!!
6.) right click on the file and then choose "delete file" thereby sending it to the recycle bin
7.) empty recycle bin, now you're ok
8.) let everyone else in your address book know too as evidently they got it if you do
RB
As far as I know, this "virus" is a hoax, and all it does is make you delete a genuine useful file: sulfnbk.exe I had a similar virus warning and a hoax warning sent to me a few days ago (not from this list). I'm on an iMac. May be some Windows user could confirm that this file is genuine, before too many "delete" buttons get pressed?
Daniel
