Information and a patch for the vulnerability can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS01-020.asp
"KCOM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED].; | SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Computer security companies on Tuesday | warned that a dangerous new Internet worm that is spreading will try | to delete and overwrite files on infected computers beginning on | Wednesday that run Mozilla and Netscape 6 builds. | | The worm, dubbed Klez.E, is programmed to delete and overwrite Word, | Excel, video, image, and Internet files, among others via Netscape 6 | and Mozilla, on the sixth day of every other month, said Mikko | Hypponen, manager of antivirus research at F-Secure, a Helsinki-based | company. | | The virus is spread through the Javascript extensions that Mozilla and | Netscape current use, a known security bug. Versions of Netscape 4.7 | and earlier are safe from the worm. | | There is currently no patch available. | | -- | Steve Horn
