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Klez: a closer look

Posted by Hemos on from the looking-at-PURE-EVIL dept.

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!

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  1. Follow the Yellow Klez road. by tcd004 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Klez has been great for my company! We just classify every copy of Klez we receive as "corporate acquistion of capital" and assign it a monetary value. We've got 6.2 billion in Klez inventory baby!

    But seriously...127K seems to be the magic number for Klez.
    So couldn't a filter simply be set up to block all emails 127k in size?

    tcd004