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New Virus, I had it!
I just received an e-mail that said I might have a virus that is spread from address book to address book. It is undetectable by Norton or McAfee.
It remains dormant for about 24 days and then activates and wipes ou the hard drive data. When I checked my hard drive, I did find the virus and successfully deleted it.
Since I have you in my address book, I want to make sure you have the "heads up" in case you, too, picked it up.
The directions for removing the virus are as follows:
1. Go to "start" button and left click - then go to "find" or "search" (depending on your computer) and left click.
2. In the "search for files or folders" type in sulfnbk.exe - this is the virus.
3. In the "look in" make sure you are searching for Drive C.
4. Left click on the "search" button (or find).
5. If this file shows up (it's an ugly blackish icon that will have the name "sulfnbk.exe") - DO NOT OPEN THIS FILE!
6. Right click on the file - go down to delete and left click.
7. It will ask you if you want to send it to the recycle bin, say click Yes.
8. Go to your desktop (where all your icons are) and double click on the recycle bin.
9. Right click on sulfnbk.exe and delete again - or empty the bin.
If you find it, send this e-mail to all in your address book, because that's how it's transferred.
Hopefully you won't find it or at least will have found it in time to avoid any problems with your hard drive.
It remains dormant for about 24 days and then activates and wipes ou the hard drive data. When I checked my hard drive, I did find the virus and successfully deleted it.
Since I have you in my address book, I want to make sure you have the "heads up" in case you, too, picked it up.
The directions for removing the virus are as follows:
1. Go to "start" button and left click - then go to "find" or "search" (depending on your computer) and left click.
2. In the "search for files or folders" type in sulfnbk.exe - this is the virus.
3. In the "look in" make sure you are searching for Drive C.
4. Left click on the "search" button (or find).
5. If this file shows up (it's an ugly blackish icon that will have the name "sulfnbk.exe") - DO NOT OPEN THIS FILE!
6. Right click on the file - go down to delete and left click.
7. It will ask you if you want to send it to the recycle bin, say click Yes.
8. Go to your desktop (where all your icons are) and double click on the recycle bin.
9. Right click on sulfnbk.exe and delete again - or empty the bin.
If you find it, send this e-mail to all in your address book, because that's how it's transferred.
Hopefully you won't find it or at least will have found it in time to avoid any problems with your hard drive.
myself, Ray. I learned pretty quickly to check Symantec's website and, on occasion, Microsoft support BEFORE deleting any files.
So I reformatted and all was good...but it still sucked b/c I had already had my computer for over a year! 
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