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Re: [Digital BW] Virus/Worm Caution

2002-06-05 by bgs

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
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