If your Anti-Virus has quarantined the virus, you can delete it from quarantine and delete the unopened, infected email from your email software. This means that your computer is not infected, but the computer of the person that sends the email to you is infected.
All the best, Susan Cochran ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carol Richards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2002 4:45 PM Subject: [CKCS-L] (OT) klem virus > Can anyone tell me how the Klem virus works? My Norton Anti-Virus has > caught it five times and put it in quarantine. It says it cannot delete it, > but has quarantined it. > > I have an AOL email address also, and I got an email called "Welcome to the > Neighborhood" sent from my comcast address that had the Klem virus > attachment. I did not open it. I have not opened an attachment to either > address with the virus. Since the virus attachment came *from* me to my AOL > address, I assumed I had somehow gotten the virus and it was sending it out > to people in my address book. > > Several people in my address book have told me that they did *not* get the > virus attachment from me, so now I am wondering if the virus attacks > someone's computer and steals email addresses, sending the virus out making > it look like it came from someone in their address book instead of from > them. Can anyone tell me if this is true? I am now getting "returned" > emails saying they came from me and were virus infected, and the email > addresses are from people that I do not have in my address book and have > never heard of. > > This is just bizarre. I hae also done a computer scan which says my > computer is not infected. All I can assume is that it works the way I think > it does and did not come from me, although it appears to have. Can anyone > explain this to me? You can email me privately since this has nothing to do > with Cavaliers. > > Thank you, > Carol Richards > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.geocities.com/carolscavaliers/ > "My little dog, a heartbeat at my feet." > Edith Wharton > > ========================================================= > "Magic Commands": > to stop receiving mail for awhile, click here and send the email: > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20NOMAIL > to start it up gain click here: > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20MAIL > > E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. > Search the Archives... http://apple.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ckcs-l.html > > All e-mail sent through CKCS-L is Copyright 2002 by its original author. ========================================================= "Magic Commands": to stop receiving mail for awhile, click here and send the email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20NOMAIL to start it up gain click here: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=SET%20CKCS-L%20MAIL E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] for assistance. Search the Archives... http://apple.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ckcs-l.html All e-mail sent through CKCS-L is Copyright 2002 by its original author.
