Some one taked advanced of the hoax..
Apparently the e-mail warning people that their PCs might contain a virus tricked a number of people into deleting the sulfnbk.exe file from their hard drives last week. Now some computer users being warned that they may receive another e-mail with "sulfnbk.exe" in the subject line which actually contains a harmful computer virus. According to News.com, people who have received the virus claim that launching the attached application activates a worm that will do substantial harm to the user's computer and to the machines of everyone on their e-mail lists. |
My concern is that because of the original hoax, people will have their guard down where this file is concerned," a system administrator wrote in an e-mail message. The company's anti-virus software caught the worm on a worker's computer.
Antivirus experts claim that a prankster did not send computer users a hoax to lull them into an actual attack. The sulfnbk.exe file is safe and does not contain a virus and the hoax originated as a joke. The second attachment in the same e-mail contains the harmful W32Magistr@MM virus.
The virus, christened "Magistrate," has a variety of official file names that include numbers before the @ symbol. First detected back on March 13, Magistrate files may also be named W32Magistr.24876@mm.
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Source: AntiOnline
