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OT but PLEASE READ: Klez Virus on Letterbox Talk List

1 messages in this thread | Started on 2003-07-31

OT but PLEASE READ: Klez Virus on Letterbox Talk List

From: thenextrushdie (jelybean@stny.rr.com) | Date: 2003-07-31 06:34:48 UTC
Folks, someone on the letterbox talk list is infected with the Klez
virus. This someone would be using MS Outlook and have my email
address in their contact list. Here's how I know:
I have been getting maybe 10 emails a day now for over a week that
look to be emails "returned" as undeilverable to the email I use for
the letterboxing talk list. However, these are not emails I have
been sending out. The way Klez works is it goes through the Outlook
contact list (I do not use Outlook), selects an email address, and
sends out a bunch of email copies of itself using that selected
address as a return address. Lucky me, mine is one of the addresses
it has chosen. So now, a bunch of people would be getting messages
that appear to be from me, but in reality, they are sent out from
the infected machine. I have scanned my machine with several
leading anti-virus packages nine ways to sunday and I am clean, so I
know it is not me. I urge you all to do a virus scan on your
computers and install a good anti-virus software. You can do a free
scan of your machine from the McAfee web site:
http://us.mcafee.com/default.asp please let's get rid of this thing,
these emails flooding my inbox are driving me crazy!

JeLyBean