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| Information and a patch for the vulnerability can be found at
| http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS01-020.asp
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| | 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.
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