Some idiot has found the time to start using my nick "Vairesh" to email people with the Klez virus attached. My system is not infected and never was. It is just amazing what a bored a**hole can find time to do. If you recieve an email from Vairesh and it is not from Vairesh@AOL.COM or Vairesh@Hotmail.com then the idiot has targeted you. Cheers, Vairesh

Thanks for the update, I will watch out for it, I get hit about 5 times a day now with that virus, my computer is not infected either, is was scanned by me and then by Symantec themselves....which I highly suggest people do....it takes a really long time, but well worth it. Sharen

Uh, no one is targeting you specifically. ;) The Klez virus mimics the source addresses of people in other people's address books using a fakemail technique.

Oh, and what's more.. the user infected has NO control over who the virus sends mail to. It randomly picks people out of your system address book and sends mail out using it's own sendmail process unrelated to your Outlook or Eudora or whatever you use to send mail.

Yes, Person A gets the virus sends it to person B claiming to be Person C (Person B and C are both on Person A's e-mail list). Person B gets the virus saying it is from Person C and chaos insuses. While Person A keeps sending out the virus not knowing that he or she is infected. Super

The Klez virus scans the Browser cache too. It can use any email adress it finds there.

I've been sent EIGHTEEN viruses in the last 2 weeks, more than I've gotten in all the time I've been on the net. Fortunately, I run both Norton's email protection and virus shield. Here's what I've been sent: favoritos1.bat Enrique.bat chat.scr Aagg.pif chat.bat Cg.exe NzAbout.pif DOOMIT.scr COLS.scr And a few others, all infected with the W32.Klez.gen@mm virus. I don't know who I blame more...the guy who created the virus, or the people who don't protect themselves properly, thus resulting in this crap filling my email box. Cover yer asses, folks, it could be awhile before this one runs it's course.

Only 18! I jump three or four times a day when the Norton screen pops up saying it's caught another one-- I think there was 18 on one day! For the last four days I thought it had run its course and now it's started up again yesterday. Be sure to check Live Update or whatever your program uses to keep current. I don't think it's cute or inventive, and I want to see their little inventive asses in jail who think up these things. Emily

Many of you have been receiving emails with the virus WORM_KLEZ.H or variant attached. Our virus scanner has detected this virus and removed it. This worm can change or spoof the original email address in the FROM: field. It obtains the email addresses that it places in the FROM: field from the infected user's address book. This causes a non-infected user to appear as the person who has sent this worm's malicious email. It does this to hide the real sender of the infected email. (from ) This is significant for 2 reasons: You may be alerted that you have sent a virus to someone, when in actuality it may be from someone else who has you in their address book. You may wish to alert the sender that they are sending you viruses but it may not be from them. In the first case: Alert IT about the email. It is unlikely that it came from you but we want to be sure it didnt please forward a copy of the virus warning to us by using the IT staff email group and we will investigate further. In the second case: Please respond to the sender that you think they may have sent you a virus. You may also wish to direct them to two different tools that can be used to remove the virus and will also test their computer to see if they are infected (or simply forward this email to them). This first tool is from Trend Micro . This link will take you to information about the virus and a link to the Fix tool is listed in the Automatic Removal section. You will need WinZip to extract and use this tool. Nortons removal tool: This is probably the easiest to use. When you get to this page click on the click here to obtain the tool link to download the tool. Also, be sure to check your home computer for this virus, you wont know you are infected unless someone responds to a virus that you have sent them. Update your virus scanner and run a manual scan or visit to do a free online scan. This tool should not be used as a substitute for a full time virus scanner as it only scans your computer when you visit this site and manually run it. Trend Micro also sells a home version of their software which I prefer over Norton or McAfee which is called Pc-cillin.

We're getting a few of these at work, people getting virus virus notifications about mail's they never sent. and depending on what virus Norton says it's removed we have to tell them different things. Most of the users think we're making it :) Norton has had you covered since last year I think, (on klez anyway) but so it goes with epedemiology, you only need one to remain to start a whole new outbreak. In other news the bloke who wrote Melissa got jailed, so it's not all doom and gloom. later jb

oh it's not just "Vairesh"... I got my own three klez worms from "Happyworldland2000"... I'm happy my Norton is protecting me so well though :)

Also, just as an FYI, the Klez virus is thought to have been written in China. So I doubt we will see them in jail any time soon. ;)

If you have Norton they updated the def this morning. It has not kicked in on Automatic yet so you might do manual update.

Hmmm I got 5 viruses the other day and Norton caught them. Norton also scans my outgoing mail, will this stop the virus from sending the virus through my mail to someone else? Does that make sense?

Thanks Ron :)

We recently had the W32.Klez virus at work and our IT guy already has security at maximum. We can't even email links to each other. It was interesting getting email from people who were not even at work that day :) smerc

I am responsible for virus protection at my company, and I recieved 2 notifications that 2 more infected messages were quarentined since I left at 5:00 this afternoon. Our small, 12 man company probably recieve 5 or more infected messages daily (fortunately no infected machines....phew) All the more reason to keep your wits about you when reading email, and choosing the right software for the job. (Anyone who doesn't have a copy of Zonealarm installed..even the free one...is crazy. Even if you get this thing, it will most likely prevent it from using you to send itsself out.) eric

A small trick I learned long ago, to prevent your PC from spreading virus worms is to create a new contact in your email address book..... !000 that is,an exclamation mark and three zero's. It heads to the start of the address list and will be the starting point of an email worm... but it is an invalid addy and will be returned as UNDELIVERABLE MAIL !000 to your inbox and the confused worm will keep trying to send to it without moving down the list. This is no substitute for a good up to date Antivurus program, only stops it spreading. For my money Norton Anti-virus and Internet security saves my bacon around 10 times a week. Tommy.

Tommy I use that trick too! :)

Eowyn..... Happyworldland, rings a bell here, I traced a virus to them a while back and it seems to be a genuinely concerned website set up to track and report, I think it cold have been the "Snow White" virus strains. I setup my Norton on full protect and went to the site, found out the info then put the addy on blocked senders list. My scrollsaw website has had about 10,000 hits and my old Photopoint pages had over 40,000, which put my email address almost in public domain. The viruses, worms, trojans and Backdoor sub-seven attacks were up to 50 a day, only way out was to change my ISP. Thanks to Norton antivirus 2001 I was never infected, but a word of warning, many people plug Norton systemworks, but on my HP computer it was worse than any virus screwing up files, recovering and filling my hard drive with useless temp files and causing Win98 to freeze and crash constantly. Not content with causing chaos and destruction it would even nominate itself and take the blame, obviously a toy for nerds. Tommy.

I got hit with it yesterday, it came from Vairesh@yahoo.com. Beware, my AV Program caught it before I opened it up. PHEW. Another hard drive saved. Thanks for your warning, if it wasn't for that I would have opened it! Bendersquint