Re: (rolls eyes)

[Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org>]

On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 09:14:59PM -0500, Eric Peterson wrote:
> and my father's Windows98 box is infected (or might be) with Klez (a stupid
> SMTP virus).  We've run three different specific virus scanners on his
> machine, but they've all turned up with a negative response, which makes me
> think that it's not (gee) his box.

I'm sure it is not.  But make sure you are running a DOS virus scanner
anyway, just to be safe.

> En fait, he shut his computer down for a day and a half, and the eMail
> responses continued to filter in, saying he was infected with a virus.

Klez sends mail as someone it finds in the infected Outlook adress
book, *not* from the infected user.  So do what I do...  Ignore the
messages.

Any admin who has those messages to the sender turned on should be
shot at this point, IMNSHO.

Steve
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