Magikman Posted April 27, 2002 #1 Share Posted April 27, 2002 There is a new email virus you need to be made aware of. Click HERE for more information. Magikman :sh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kira Posted April 27, 2002 #2 Share Posted April 27, 2002 Ty Magikman not a very nice thing :s9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy Posted April 27, 2002 #3 Share Posted April 27, 2002 Yeah, I've been getting loads of those damn e-mails the last week or so. > :-/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logic Posted April 28, 2002 #4 Share Posted April 28, 2002 Thanks for the warning there is also one that goes through email and it says: "a virtual card for you" Beware of those also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saru Posted April 28, 2002 #5 Share Posted April 28, 2002 I keep getting sent E-Mails from various addresses and with various titles, but each of them has a variation of this : This is a new game This game is my first work. You're the first player. I hope you would like it. Each one has slightly different wording. I can't see any attachments or any other potential virus-carrying additions to the E-Mails. Anyone else got anything like this ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PurpleStuart Posted May 2, 2002 #6 Share Posted May 2, 2002 Yes, i spent a fun day last week clearing Klez from my companies' network. took most of a day, and there is still one laptop which is not functioning very happily atm. Be warned too that Klez also disguises itself as mailer-daemon messages telling you that the message you sent was undeliverable - and has an attachment which proports to be the email you sent out. The idea being that it hopes you will want to open the letter out of curiousity to see which one it was that you sent out that didn't reach it's destination. It isn't a message but the virus and if you open it it will infect your PC (Macs are immune to Klez). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PurpleStuart Posted May 3, 2002 #7 Share Posted May 3, 2002 SaRuMaN - that is Klez.h as well. more info here Also be warned that you don't need to open the attachment to start the virus infecting. If you haven't patched MS Office with SR-1a then just looking at or previewing the email will run the attachment. This is how the system at my work got it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saru Posted May 3, 2002 #8 Share Posted May 3, 2002 PS, Thanks for letting me know - I'm using Outlook ever since my Outlook Express stopped working, and I was a bit concerned that unlike Outlook Express, script files are not treated as attachments and seem to run by themselves. I'm going to go and download SR1a in just a few minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saru Posted May 3, 2002 #9 Share Posted May 3, 2002 Actually it seems that Outlook XP blocks harmful E-Mail attachments by default, which is why I can't view them. I ran a Klez cleaning tool and it seems that I don't have the virus on my computer. SR1a is only for Outlook 2000 or other earlier versions, so I wasn't able to install it anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mystify Posted May 3, 2002 #10 Share Posted May 3, 2002 Geeesh... I hope I never get any of those suckers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PurpleStuart Posted May 3, 2002 #11 Share Posted May 3, 2002 Sorry yep your right, 2000 only... i deal with it so much i forget there are other versions ;D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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