On Saturday 11 May 2002 11:41, Hans-Peter Zeedijk wrote:
> Maybe I can put some lite on it: Probably the problems were caused by me
> (deeply ashamed!) because my computer was breevly invested by that new KLEZ
> virus and because I am member of the list, a lot may have had that virus
> from me resulting in generating KLEZ invested rubish mails from them as
> well. Because I can send no attachments, I cannot sent a tool I got from
> Symantec to find and remove the virus. Please look on the sites from major
> Antivirus company's for this tool and scan your PC's
Sending clean-up programs is a bad idea anyway, because some viruses pretend
to be clean-up programs themselves. Isn't KLEZ one of those?
If you want to help people scan and clean up, just post URLs to wellknown
anti-virus sites offering clean-up programs.
> (ofcourse you with
> Linux, Apple or MSX computers used for reading mail are not infected)
Sometimes it's an advantage to be different... :)
> SORRY, SORRY SORRY,
> Hapzee. (Hope you will not block me from the list)
I think it's brave of you to confess this, which should not be punished.
Ofcourse you should learn from this and be more careful next time.
Things to do to avoid most infections:
- Make sure you regularly install fixes for your Outlook, or start using a
more secure e-mail client. Many serious security leaks have been discovered
in Outlook in the past and new leaks are still found regularly.
- Uninstall Windows Scripting Host. If you don't know what this is, you don't
need it, but many viruses/worms do.
- Do not start executable attachments in any format (exe, bat, pif, scr, vbs
etc). Not even if the mail comes from someone you know or claims to be a
virus cleaner.
Bye,
Maarten
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