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Subject: Re: Cute new hoax
From: JC Dill <inet-list @ vo . cnchost . com>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 09:35:36 -0700
To: "list-managers" <list-managers @ GreatCircle . COM>
In-reply-to: <200105311430.f4VEUjh11933@plaidworks.com>
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On 07:38 AM 5/31/01, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:
 >
 >It's taking a lot of people. A good friend of mine got nailed because he
 >was warned by a good friend of his that he'd been using as resident
 >computer expert for the last decade...

I've heard that since the hoax, someone has actually started sending a file 
with this name as a virus.  The virus is a different file size (original 
file ~45k, virus ~77k, IIRC), and is put in a different directory from the 
resident file.  See:

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/sulfnbk.exe.warning.html

<quote>
The virus/worm W32.Magistr.24876@mm can arrive as an
attachment named Sulfnbk.exe. The Sulfnbk.exe file used
by Windows is located in the C:\Windows\Command
folder. If the file is located in any other folder, or arrives as
an attachment to a email message,
</quote>

See:

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.magistr.24876@mm.html




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