Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 01:14:54 +0000 From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Worm Klez.E immunity
>From: "Pres Waterman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] is an abandoned account. > >The "mailbox full" is indicative of the trash box I send every mail >addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to, is full itself. Hmmm.... So the [EMAIL PROTECTED] account is still active, but you're not using it any more? >Furthermore, the way klez works >is it takes someone's address book and spoofs addresses found withIN it as >the "from" address. So it looks loke someone had my old address ( all it >takes is the default "put people I reply to in my address book" setting to >do that, and then they inadvertently passed on the klez. I see where the .il domain is Isreal. Think someone there, maybe from the list, had your email address and got hit with Klez? It was just a bit 'funny' that that's quite a hotspot these days where something like this might be more than an inadvertent passing along of Klez. I've been having problems on my L70 that I'm not absolutely certain isn't a new trojan of some kind. Though I'm pretty sure it was the new RealAudio player I just upgraded to. With nothing running at boot, no screensaver or virus software running, scandisk run in Windows was going through failure loops complaining that some software was running that made it impossible to scan the system... and then prompting me to close all running apps. Just a couple of weeks back I had to clean Klez off a friend's system that had the exact same symptom (plus a few). But neither a McAfee scan, or an online scan at the www.antivirus.com site for Trend came up with any virus on my system. I guess what made me nervous was that I had just visited the 'Cult of the Dead Cow' website after Leo Laporte on TechTV had been talking about. Seems they are developing software to help prevent potential Interent problems. And though I trust the group and am pretty certain they wouldn't attack people visitiung their site, as it seems they've always been involved in warning the public about potential security problems, it was a bit creepy having system problems soon after browsing their website. But so I uninstalled the RealOne RealAudio software, and the scandisk problem disappeared, though I was still experiencing a number of odd system behaviours. I think maybe the old Real G2 player I installed after RealOne was having problems playing some .ra files. I uninstalled that, and installed a newer old version 7.0 of RealPlayer, and so far things seem to be working without problems. This has been the most problem I've had with Windows, ad windows software in quite a while, if in fact that was the problem. Maybe it's Karma from suggesting that I'd tamed the 'lion'. :-0 Matt _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
