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This is a hoax and a particularly viscious one at that. This particular hoax
has the potential to create problems
even if it isn't a virus. If you follow the 'instructions' contained in
the hoax and delete sulfnbk.exe you may not be able to restore long file
names (file names are sometimes truncated internally within the operating
system and restored when displayed). This could mean that when a systems
function ends abnormally, the file names are abbreviated the next time you
start your system you will see only truncated files names. Microsoft's
'fix' for that is (or at least was) to have you run the sulfnbk.exe utility
to restore the long file names. Of course, depending on how your particular
version of Windows works, the problem may not arise. If it does, you may
have to get a copy of the utility if you don't like dealing with truncated
file names. It would be of interest to know whether any of you who deleted
sulfnbk.exe ever have any problems.
This is an especially annoying hoax because not only does it instruct the
poor unsuspecting users to do damage to their own systems, but most of the
references to the hoax on the Web are in Spanish/Portugese.
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