After I posted my comment about innovative new directions in virus attacks,
the following warning appeared in my mailbox:
----- Original Message -----
> The following hoax email ... asks recipients to delete the Sulfnbk.exe
file.
I don't know whether I will bother posting advice about this to any lists,
but it shows that the SOBs who propagate viruses are ingenious - this is so
much like the standard procedure for cleansing many viruses that I suspect
that some people would be taken in by it. After all, the key to computer
sabotage is to get the user to do something dangerous, and con men have a
long record of being able to fool people.
In any case, it is this sort of development that I think we should be
prepared to warn subscribers about. If hoaxes of this sort become
widespread, and not well-publicised, they are legitimate grounds for
postings.
Bill Silvert
