schibo
Emulator Developer
April 30, 2002
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...30/tc_cn/survey__klez_worm_tops_sircam__nimda
I get this virus in email at least 10 times a day now. Although I haven't been infected personally (I think), it is perhaps the most clever virus I have ever seen in terms of its ability to spread.
Go to the bottom of the yahoo page linked above for the symantec removal tool, and check your machines.
Here's a brief summary of the worst that the Klez virus, its variants, (and the Elkern virus that it also propagates) can do:
Klez.E has been activated on the 10 year anniversary of the Michaelangelo virus, March 6, and will corrupt files on every 6th day of every odd month. The next threat is May 6. Klez is very clever in that it spoofs email headers so that it can pretend to be coming from someone you know, when it indeed isn't. It checks the ICQ database, Outlook contacts, and random files on your box for email addresses to send to. It also uses its own built-in smtp, so it can send without the need of a separate mail program. You only need to be infected and on the net, and it will send. It also uses very clever subject lines in email that it can get from text documents on your computer.
Also, if you have Internet Explorer 5 or 5.5, you will need to go here: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS01-020.asp.
http://www.norton.com and http://www.mcafee.com have additional information on their home pages. Spread the word, not the virus.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...30/tc_cn/survey__klez_worm_tops_sircam__nimda
I get this virus in email at least 10 times a day now. Although I haven't been infected personally (I think), it is perhaps the most clever virus I have ever seen in terms of its ability to spread.
Go to the bottom of the yahoo page linked above for the symantec removal tool, and check your machines.
Here's a brief summary of the worst that the Klez virus, its variants, (and the Elkern virus that it also propagates) can do:
Klez.E has been activated on the 10 year anniversary of the Michaelangelo virus, March 6, and will corrupt files on every 6th day of every odd month. The next threat is May 6. Klez is very clever in that it spoofs email headers so that it can pretend to be coming from someone you know, when it indeed isn't. It checks the ICQ database, Outlook contacts, and random files on your box for email addresses to send to. It also uses its own built-in smtp, so it can send without the need of a separate mail program. You only need to be infected and on the net, and it will send. It also uses very clever subject lines in email that it can get from text documents on your computer.
Also, if you have Internet Explorer 5 or 5.5, you will need to go here: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS01-020.asp.
http://www.norton.com and http://www.mcafee.com have additional information on their home pages. Spread the word, not the virus.