Martin, It is impossible to tell where the worm comes from because it mimics or spoofs addresses. I've had some say that I sent an e-mail to China etc. It has attacked over one million computers since April 27. My anti-virus program ( PC Cillin 2002 ) deletes the mail as soon as it arrives and just leaves a note to advise me. It can't be cleaned but is stopped and deleted if your program is current, Not to worry. Barry Schaffer-----I've been hit about 100 or more times at least. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Wesley" <mwesley250@...> To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 12:55 AM Subject: [Digital BW] Virus/Worm Caution > All, > > For the last several days I have received 2 or 3 e-mail every evening containing a worm virus known as W32.Klez.H@mm. Each night it is from a different e-mail address. The e-mails are addressed to my two personal addresses and to me as list owner of this group. So I suspect that some group member or former group member's computer is infected with this worm virus. > > (The virus is not coming in with messages from the list. Yahoo has antivirus software in place to block that.) > > You can read all about this virus at: > > http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.klez.h@... > > The damage it causes in rated as moderate but it is difficult to remove if your computer becomes infected. It is one of those worms that resides on your computer, searches for e-mail addresses and then does mass mailings to those addresses using randomly selected files from your computer for the text, itself as an automatically executing attachment, and a randomly selected e-mail address from your computer as the sender. At this point it is a nuisance as my Norton Anti-virus cannot do a repair but can only quarantine the file so I have to delete it manually. > > So everyone please take this as a reminder to use antivirus software, keep it turned on and keep your virus definition files updated regularly. All of us who are very active on the Internet need to protect ourselves and our friends. > > Thanks, > Martin Wesley > http://www.borderless-photos.de/guests.html > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > Please visit the Group Homepage to check the Files, Bookmarks, Polls and other resources as they are often being updated. The page is at: > > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint > > Please follow these basic guidelines: > - Include your full name with your message. > - Include the address of your website, if you have one. > - As threads develop, trim off excess portions of earlier messages to keep them short. > - As the topic of a thread changes remember to change the subject header. > - Good manners are required at all time. No personal attacks or "flames." > - Complete your Yahoo profile. > - Before posting a question, search the message archives and the various resources on the homepage. > > > > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > >
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Re: [Digital BW] Virus/Worm Caution
2002-06-05 by bgs
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