RE: Email virus spreads memetically; damages with autoimmune response

From: Lawrence DeBivort (debivort@umd5.umd.edu)
Date: Wed May 30 2001 - 23:27:31 BST

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    From: "Lawrence DeBivort" <debivort@umd5.umd.edu>
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    Yes, that is exactly what this "virus" does -- give instructions to the user
    that results in deleting a program that enables the PC to handle long file
    names, as I understand it. Anybody who knows computers will ignore it, but
    others may be tricked into harming their own machines.

    Sneaky and nasty.

    - Lawrence

    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk [mailto:fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk]On Behalf
    > Of Dave Gross
    > Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 7:28 PM
    > To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
    > Subject: Email virus spreads memetically; damages with autoimmune
    > response
    >
    >
    >
    > Just got this URL forwarded to me about an email virus that spreads
    > memetically (by which I mean that it just persuades people to forward it,
    > rather than executing code on the receiving machine that causes it to be
    > spread) but that, unlike any other examples of memetically-spreading email
    > viruses I'm aware of, may do damage to the recipient's machine by
    > provoking
    > the recipient to delete an important system file that the email
    > labels as a
    > dangerous virus. Sneaky!
    >
    > http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/pf/sulfnbk.exe.warning.html
    >
    >
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