{"id":179,"date":"2001-05-31T10:46:00","date_gmt":"2001-05-31T18:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=179"},"modified":"2007-12-30T23:33:19","modified_gmt":"2007-12-31T07:33:19","slug":"an-electronic-virus-that-needs-a-human-host","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=179","title":{"rendered":"An electronic virus that needs a human host"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is an email circulating claiming that <code>sulfnbk.exe<\/code> is a virus that has infected windows computers, and that you should delete this file (as <a href=\"http:\/\/vmyths.com\/hoax.cfm?id=257&amp;page=3\">reported at Vmyths.com<\/a>).  But the file is actually part of the MS Windows operating system.<\/p>\n<p>So now computer viruses have come full circle: just like a \"real\" virus, this email virus is completely inert until it infects a biological host &#8212; in this case a human being. For the record, it does not appear that this email was an intentional piece of social engineering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is an email circulating claiming that sulfnbk.exe is a virus that has infected windows computers, and that you should delete this file (as reported at Vmyths.com). But the file is actually part of the MS Windows operating system. So now computer viruses have come <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/?p=179\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.netjeff.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}