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F-Secure Hoax Information Pages: ELFBOWL and FROGPULT hoaxes
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Summary
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| There appeared numerous hoax warning messages about ELFBOWL.EXE and FROGPULT.EXE that are infected with a dangerous virus. Please do not spread these around. |
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Detailed Description
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These warnings states that these executables arrive as e-mail attachments and that they are infected with a virus that will activate its payload on 25th of December or on 1st of January 2000.
We checked several samples of these files we received and found no infection in them. But there's a threat that someone purposely
or unintentionally spreads these programs infected with a virus or substutute them with a trojan. Below we provide CRC and length of clean ELFBOWL.EXE and FROGPULT.EXE files.
Length CRC-32 Name
1130496 ae35e713 ELFBOWL.EXE
1021952 e0b827fa FROGPULT.EXE
The above info was obtained with PKUNZIP or PKZIP utilities. Please do not spread these messages around. |
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Last Modified: January 01, 2006
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