DANGER WILL ROBINSON! VIRUS ALERT! no joke

Ben johnson

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I have received this virus 5 times now. Because I do not, EVER, open attachments at home, my computer has not been infected. I have deleted all.

It arrives with messages like, "Let's be friends!", or "Windows XP patch". The body is blank, the attachment is something like: "nfz1732_75p[1].jpg" or "nfg1770_710[1].htm". The suffix is a lie. I forwarded it to Hotmail and tried to view it at the library, with the following report:

"NOTE: Found virus WORM_KLEZ.E in nfz1732_75p[1].scr. Unable to clean, attachment nfz1732_75p[1].scr has been deleted."

DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES OPEN THIS OR ANY OTHER ATTACHMENT, NO MATTER WHAT THE SUFFIX SAYS IT IS.

Because I have now received 5 copies in the last couple of days, I am convinced this is REAL, and not a hoax. I have tried to contact all 5 people sending it, ONE replied and said SHE DID NOT (intentionally) SEND IT! Viruses usually send themselves...

Please copy this and forward it to everyone you know...
 
Here is the information from Symantec, makers of Norton Antivirus.

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.klez.e@mm.html

Because so many virus warnings are hoaxes, it is nice to always post some sort of verification along with your report. This particular link directs you to the patch at Microsoft to prevent the worm from exploiting vulnerabilities.
 
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Thanx for the link. I'm usually not aware of the "official sites", I'm only posting the warning because I've received this thing SEVEN TIMES now. All I knew was I'm suddenly receiving bunches of it, and when I ran it through "Hotmail" it positively identified it as a virus. I've had several, one months ago was something like"c:/coolprogs_prettypark.exe". Which I'm told erases your entire hard drive. Got that in multiple copies too.

A couple of months ago something tried to download from the web---it grabbed my "download" box, seizing both "download now" and "execute after downloading". But since the downloader program came in through Juno, which does not actually connect to the web (it retrieves email & then HANGS UP), a box popped up saying, "Unable to locate (number). Please try again later." So---I recommend, if you are getting email and find your "download" box suddenly popping, HIT THE POWER BUTTON!
 
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I also thank you for the heads up. :)


I am a frequent visitor of the symantec website.

I honestly do not understand the whole virus worm thing. Why people feel the need to send destruction upon other people. :mad: It makes me sad and upset.

I update my virus definitions weekly. My virus protection is protecting me from 60,044 virus. :eek: That number has jumped from 38,000 in not even two years.

About a month ago I did get infected with a trojan horse virus that my software did not recognize. I guess the best thing is not to download, visit unknow websites and especially click on attachments sent through e-mail.


Thanks again,
Roberta
 
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Problem is, I got Guard-dog. Comes with McCaffee Virusscan. And when I upgrade the engine and virus profiles, I CAN'T CONNECT TO THE INTERNET!!! I had to do the "windows/remove-programs" and totally remove it, then reinstall from CD. So that I am protected to March, 2001. :eek:

I've heard a lot of good about Norton. Do you guys like it??? Maybe I'll hafta spring for the fifty bucks...
 
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Norton always has worked fine with me. Seems a bit more stable and more updated then Mcafee. You can update over the internet I think free for a year with the retail version until you need to pay the updating fee (Mcafee does the same thing). I could be wrong with my numbers but that is what I can tell ya right now.
 
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Everything from Norton is good except CrashGuard. All CrashGuard succeeds in doing is to tell you your computer has crashed, then freeze the whole thing up. :p

Norton Antivirus 2002 is the only Norton antivirus that is compatible with XP, so if you have XP, be sure to get it. With it comes a year of updates free, then you have to buy a newer version or pay a very reasonable fee...I can't remember how much but I think it's less than $4.
 
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UPDATE?!?! Please tell me that's updating only the program! Do you hafta pay for new virus deffinitions???

That would be a SCAM!

BTW, I'm up to having received a couple dozen virus emails. Just got one on another account, this one didn't even attempt to hide itself. It didn't lie about what it was (the others pretended to be JPEGS or HTMLs, this one simply said: "Title,.scr"). Hotmail branded it: "W32_Klez. (something) @mm32". It had a "Readme.txt" file associated with it, but of course I didn't open THAT. Probably was just another copy of the virus...

(The "readme" didn't come through when I forwarded it & opened at the library...)
 
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