Maarten, If you have read the mail more thourough, you would have seen that I DIDN'T send an attachment, but only a remark to look at the site of major Virus defenders for a solution. (and then, my patch was from Symantec (norton Antivirus) so it is a real anti-KLEZ-tool!) It worked in my case anyway! Hapzee ----- Original Message ----- From: "Maarten ter Huurne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2002 8:01 PM Subject: Re: Spam & the mailinglist... (was: harddisk read only?)
> On Saturday 11 May 2002 11:41, Hans-Peter Zeedijk wrote: > > Maybe I can put some lite on it: Probably the problems were caused by me > > (deeply ashamed!) because my computer was breevly invested by that new KLEZ > > virus and because I am member of the list, a lot may have had that virus > > from me resulting in generating KLEZ invested rubish mails from them as > > well. Because I can send no attachments, I cannot sent a tool I got from > > Symantec to find and remove the virus. Please look on the sites from major > > Antivirus company's for this tool and scan your PC's > > Sending clean-up programs is a bad idea anyway, because some viruses pretend > to be clean-up programs themselves. Isn't KLEZ one of those? > > If you want to help people scan and clean up, just post URLs to wellknown > anti-virus sites offering clean-up programs. > > > (ofcourse you with > > Linux, Apple or MSX computers used for reading mail are not infected) > > Sometimes it's an advantage to be different... :) > > > SORRY, SORRY SORRY, > > Hapzee. (Hope you will not block me from the list) > > I think it's brave of you to confess this, which should not be punished. > Ofcourse you should learn from this and be more careful next time. > > Things to do to avoid most infections: > - Make sure you regularly install fixes for your Outlook, or start using a > more secure e-mail client. Many serious security leaks have been discovered > in Outlook in the past and new leaks are still found regularly. > - Uninstall Windows Scripting Host. If you don't know what this is, you don't > need it, but many viruses/worms do. > - Do not start executable attachments in any format (exe, bat, pif, scr, vbs > etc). Not even if the mail comes from someone you know or claims to be a > virus cleaner. > > Bye, > Maarten > > -- > For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html > > ================================================================ > Deze e-mail is door E-mail VirusScanner van Planet Internet gecontroleerd op virussen. > Op http://www.planet.nl/evs staat een verwijzing naar de actuele lijst waar op wordt gecontroleerd. > -- For info, see http://www.stack.nl/~wynke/MSX/listinfo.html
