>All this week I've been getting messages from friends complaining
>that I've been sending them e-mails with attachments that are
>flagged by their virus software. One of them appeared on a mailing
>list to which I subscribe. These e-mails were sent by a machine
>infected with the Klez virus. I don't know whose machine it is. All
>that I can say is that I'm in somebody's address book on a Windows
>machine and I'm not sending the messages. You can read more about it
>here.
>
><http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,52174,00.html>
>
>So, if you're in a Windows machine and you get an e-mail from me
>with an attachment, unless you were expecting it, toss it. If you're
>not using Windows, it's harmless.
>
>--
>Lee Larson, Mathematics Department, University of Louisville
>Phone: 502-852-6826 FAX: 502-852-7132
>
>
>The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be June 25.
>For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of
>activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
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Actually this has been going on for some time (about a month ago was
when it started getting serious) and it seems to have infected some
mail servers on the net as well as home computers. (Have you gotten a
message FROM yourself TO yourself yet? -- one that you know you
didn't send. I'm getting one or two a week now. As mail is routing
through the 'net, your address is being picked off and used by the
virus). Ahh remember the good 'ol days when viruses were spread by
floppy disk. Alternatively, the computers may have found a way to
start asking the existential question 'if i get an e-mail that came
from me but i didn't send it, does it really ...'
Jerry
The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be June 25.
For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of
activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
