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Klez: a closer look
sheriff_p writes "Anyone recieving even a small amount of email is likely to have encountered Klez varients of some form in the last few months - Message Labs shows it as being the biggest email-transmitted virus of all time by some way. So just how boring is it? Virus Bulletin has an indepth look at what makes Klez tick." And today alone, Klez virus e-mails were 90% of my e-mail by bytecount. YAY Outlook!
Can you imagine if Klez infected a Beowulf Cluster?
...is when even viruses don't send you mail :-(
;-)
Steve
Enjoy Y2K? Roll-on Year 2037!
Personally I get the enlarge your penis by up to three inches distribution quite a bit. I'm thinking a lot of my male associates must have some ... errr deficiencies... that they keep opening that particular email up and spreading it to me.
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It would only help if the addresses were encrypted with a one-way hash ;)
Dear Sir,
I don't know how you know my E-mail address, but thanks to you the spam will arrive in huge amounts
if readers were to follow this example. Now I have get myself a new address.
Sincerest,
ignoreme@example.net
Yeah but if all the viruses are gone the spam won't have anything to keep it company :)
I stole this Sig
The virus I've had the hardest time getting rid of:
[ ] Nimda
[ ] Klez
[ ] ILoveYou
[ ] Sircam
[ ] Hybris
[ ] Whatever CowboyNeal has
Give me my freedom, and I'll take care of my own security, thank you.