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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. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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