The *real* story http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=search&StoryID=665144
fyi, it *doesn't* affect NS6 and Mozilla. Pratik. On 03/05/2002 05:24 PM, KCOM wrote: > 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 >
