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Klez, The Virus that Keeps on Giving
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.
May they spend the rest of eternity having to listen to Oral Roberts sermons
Do not spread "09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0" over the internet, thank you.
What were they of, altar boys?
"Hardly used" will not fetch you a better price for your brain.
to use a Mac.
(-1, Raw and Uncut is the only way to read)
A week or so I start getting all these emails from different mailbox administrators, etc. informing me that emails I was trying to send had invalid addresses.
I'm looking at them and it shows my address in the from area and it was mostly spam for beastiality sites. My wife went ballistic.
I got tons of them back as undeliverable. How many made it through? And now people think I was sending them spam for a porn site.
They were coming back to my wife's WIN98 machine, so she called MS. The help desk chick tells her "Someone else has a virus and it is sending out emails w/your address" So my wife says "What do I do?" and they tell her to update her virus definitions. My wife said, "But you just told me that the virus is not on my computer, someone else has it. Is there nothing that I can do?" the girl says "Well download new virus definitions and check for service packs"
The whole thing was rather humorous.
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It's hard to believe that's how Micronians are made. Why don't we see it right now by having you both kiss one another?
Webster.com is your friend, Taco.
The professional journalistic practices and editing of Slashdot always cease to amaze me.
/.: why the hell am I here?
It leaves me wondering if people are making a big fuss out of nothing [...]
One of our marketing folks sent Klez to our press-release mailing list.
My mother-in-law got a message about the "sulfnbk virus", and my wife "cleaned up" our PC. Too bad it's not a virus, just a standard Windows file. (Although in a sense it's a virus, it just infects the users who unsuspectingly do damage to their system!) It's starting to be a good argument for me to switch to Linux...
Ooh, a sarcasm detector. Oh, that's a real useful invention.
I also use Outlook, and I have had no viruses. I suspect the reason is that neither of us has any friends.
It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.
I've used a ZX81 since 1982 and have never been infected by any virus.
Use of an obscure OS is not really a legitimate excuse.
That is what happens when you don't use protection
Yes. Remember. when you have unsafe email with
someone, you're having email with all the
other people that person's had unsafe email with...
or something like that.
Mod me down and I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine...
Because it doesn't work if you spell all the commands wrong.
If it ain't broke, you need more software.
These virii typically propogate by mailing themselves out to users in the victim's address book. Perhaps no one has you as a contact?
.....Any of the posts today at slashdot. They are all either from dead slashdot readers or are from priests! I checked them all out!!!!!!
Especially if the priest was catholic and it came from a child porn site.
I mean no disrespect to honest hard working catholic priest.
"Can't sleep. Clowns will eat me"
Klez.E is the most common world-wide spreading worm.It's very dangerous by corrupting your files. Because of its very smart stealth and anti-anti-virus technic,most common AV software can't detect or clean it. We developed this free immunity tool to defeat the malicious virus. You only need to run this tool once,and then Klez will never come into your PC. NOTE: Because this tool acts as a fake Klez to fool the real worm,some AV monitor maybe cry when you run it. If so,Ignore the warning,and select 'continue'. If you have any question,please mail to me.
No, no questions - lol.
It had a nice executable with the worm attached, too. :)
> I'm afraid that the original poster is correct, the only place you'll find an adult site's reputation being seen as good is at their colocation (bling bling) and a pedophile convention.
Why would pedophiles care about an adult site?
Virg
Many ATMs and cash registers run OS/2, but you don't hear about it because there is no problem.
Yeah, I don't suspect that ATMs and cash registers get too many e-mail viruses. I think the orignal poster was making a point about OS/2 being an obscure desktop OS not a ATM/Cash Register OS.
"The dinosaurs died because they didn't have a space program." - Niven
Maybe I should just tweak Klez a bit so it removes me from anyone's address book. Yeah, that's it! Anyone one else wanna add their addr to the cleaning list?
Or finding a good lawyer.
I'd rather you do it wrong, than for me to have to do it at all.
I finally managed to escape the hell that is a Microsoft Outlook-only office environment ("Eudora? But it doesn't have that calendar thing...!") by quitting. Between the vulnerable software and the uneducatable(?) users, it just wasn't worth the effort.
Then one day I received the following call from the new IT manager:
Me: "Hello?"
Him: "Hey, it's W****n, can you come in here today? Our server is doing weird shit and everybody has that new virus thing."
Me: "Well, so, fix it!"
Him: "I can't figure out the server config, and you have the antivirus software!"
Me: "Christ, I took you through the server setup for almost a month! I printed out the specs and shit! They're in a folder on top of the f**king thing! And what happened to the NAV Corp Ed subscription?"
Him: "Uh, I can't find it. We thought you must have...taken...it...hello, what's this? Hey, it's from my ex-wife! I wonder what she's sent me..."
Then he opened it.
True story.
No, the plural of virus is Microsoft.
They make me feel wanted. Never before have I had so many people send me files in order to have my advice.
If seeing people who aren't there makes a "Beautiful Mind," what does not seeing people who really are there make?
It makes you a sysadmin?
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As a matter of fact, I am a lawyer. But I play an actor on TV.