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Klez, The Virus that Keeps on Giving

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the isnt-that-special dept.

kylus writes "Wired is running a story about the continued escapades of the Klez virus, and the damage--both to finances and reputations--that it is leaving behind. Between emails from a dead friend and porno spam appearing to be sent from a priest, I think "Don't Believe the 'From' Line" is the correct lesson." God bless microsoft email viruses. I'm on a modem for a few weeks and downloading countless megs of mail viruses is extremely frusterating. Course I'm still getting sircams.

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  1. Re:that is what by VoiceOfRaisin · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I use Post Road Mailer for OS/2. I have been infected with 0 viruses (or virii?) since 1990

    I use Outlook and IE, and have had 0 viruses in a similar timeframe, your point?

  2. KLEZ by buss_error · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    My office was hit with 1300 of them yesterday, and over 400 were from the same RR customer. We blocked the RR account, even though we have an e-mail virus scanner, because of the number of connections this virus infected computer was consuming.

    Over all, we've identified over 15,000 virus infected e-mails on an average traffic of 11,500 per day. This doesn't count the 70 or so mutations that our scanner did not catch in a two day period. Turned out the broken mime header prevented effective scanning of the attachment.

    Can I send the bill for 14 techs to MicroCrap for this?

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  3. Re:Worse than porn spam from a priest... by CDWert · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Uhhhhhh sorry for the question ....

    Isnt "adult site" and "decent reputation" in the same sentence an oxymoron ?

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  4. Unless... by AntiNorm · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    and porno spam appearing to be sent from a priest, I think "Don't Believe the 'From' Line" is the correct lesson

    Unless he's a Catholic priest, that is.

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  5. Re:Really, how common are these things? by kubrick · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    As I work for an AV firm that deals with email protection
    ...
    These email viruses are as pervasive as we are being led to believe

    Well, you would say that, wouldn't you? If it weren't true you'd be out of a job!

    I'm still partial to the conspiracy theory that has a large number of these viruses being written inside the walls of the antivirus houses anyway...

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