TrekkieGrrrl opened this issue on May 27, 2003 ยท 12 posts
electroglyph posted Tue, 27 May 2003 at 11:37 AM
I got two last week. One to my work account, and one to home. My work automatically stripped the attachment. I'm using yahoo for my home email. The attachment was intact but yahoo gives me the option to download the attachment without scanning for viruses. Just wanted to mention this because you can still get infected if you bypass the scanning software. Don't do it! Always scan, even if the email says it comes from your mother. I get 1-2 emails a month from myself. When I expand the routing header it's actually from brumar@jps.net. B Rumar was contacted by earthlink cleaned his computer and even closed his account. I'm still getting emails supposedly from him. I can follow these back as far as ohio. The KLEZ virus software has encorporated both our emails into the virus engine to spread. I gave up on ever stopping it and set up a filter that just dumps these in the trash when I get them. Viruses can be very sophisticated. This new worm has it's own email engine and can spread through shared computers over a network. It does not use your outlook, eudora mail to send itself to other computers. It will read your address files ar html pages on your computer to find addresses.