I discover that I may have been sending out a worm since June 17th. >From Dr Mercola's newsletter... dated 25 June... "If You Use Outlook Express, last week a worm virus was sent out that only affects Outlook Express users. This is clearly the minority of people reading this newsletter. All viral definitions were updated and hard disks cleaned of the infection, so this should not recur. "
As the Newsletter that came out on June 17 was the one in question, I'm trying to notify anyone that I emailed after 21:43 hours on the 17th. My apologies if this affects you - I only read the latest newsletter today and was horrified to find the thing on my computer. This is what to look for first: c:\windows\kak.htm Here is the information from the site where you can download a cleaner if you need it: What is WScript.KAKWorm? KAK is a Win32-based e-mail worm. It alters a file that your computer uses whenever you send out an email message or newsgroup posting so that every message that goes out has the virus attached to it. It does not corrupt any data on your hard drive, however it is designed to shut your machine down on certain days which may inadvertantly result in a loss of data. How do I get it? KAK arrives as embeded script within an email message. Just opening the message infects your computer. You'll know you have it when you see strange messages start to pop-up such as: "Do you want to allow software such as ActiveX controls and plug-ins to run?", "Kagou-Anti-Kro$oft says not today!", and "S3 driver memory alloc failed" Your machine may also shut itself down on its own. Who's at risk? People running Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express and Internet Explorer 5.0. Those running MacOS and WebTV are immune to the virus. What exactly does the virus do to my computer? When you open an infected message the following lines are written to your Autoexec.bat file: @echo off>c:\windows\STARTM~1\Programs\Startup\kak.hta del c:\windows\STARTM~1\Programs\Startup\kak.hta The following files are installed on your machine: c:\windows\kak.htm c:\windows\system\(#).hta (this # is derived from the first eight characters of the subfolder located at: c:\Windows\Application Data\Identities\) c:\windows\Start Menu\Programs\StartUp\kak.hta Plus all the bits in the registers and so on. go to www.getvirushelp.com and download the KAKCLEANER. It will also tell you to download another file from Microsoft to stop reinfection. Then you run the cleaner and the computer is fixed. Judith. -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: silver-list-requ...@eskimo.com -or- silver-digest-requ...@eskimo.com with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com>
