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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
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> 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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