On 2003.01.07, Dave Siktberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Dossy! I just got an email from you via the AOLSERVER listserv that was > titled "The Garden of Eden" and was found to be infected with the klez virus > by my Norton Antivirus. Have you been doing unprotected-something? Oops! > :)
Unfortunately, Klez grabs email addresses it finds and forges the outgoing mail header to appear as though the virus payload is coming from someone OTHER than the infected user. This makes it hard to inform people that they're infected, which helps continue to propagate the virus. Sadly, my email address is pasted ALL over the net and is in plenty of people's address books and saved emails, so it seems the probability of Klez going out with my email address is getting higher and higher ... Always look at the full mail headers, especially the Received: lines. If it hasn't passed through a panoptic.com mail server, most likely the Klez is not actually coming from an infected machine of mine. -- Dossy -- Dossy Shiobara mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Panoptic Computer Network web: http://www.panoptic.com/ "He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70)
