Re: Fw: Important re Virus

[Nat & Richard <trailride@foothill.net>]

Joan, it's a hoax.  

You deleted a legitimate Windows file that comes with every normal
install of the operating system.  The reason that the virus checkers
don't "detect" it is that it's not infected. It is a small executable
that is used by Windows to recover long file names.  It probably won't
much affect you otherwise, but you probably ought to see about restoring
it.

This is an interesting variant of a real virus, in that a bogus email
virus warning is used to get hundreds of thousands of PC users to
delete/damage parts of their systems.  It propagates itself by
encouraging each recipient of the email to send it to everyone in their
address book.  Real viruses are different only in that they automate the
whole process for you. :)

/richard

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