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Re: Curtis Fowles, you might have a virus problem

Posted by Curtis Fowles on Wed Aug 28, 2002 01:12:43 AM

In reply top Curtis Fowles, you might have a virus problem posted by Tulio on Tue Aug 27, 2002 09:49:45 PM

Hi Tulio,

Thanks for the note. My system is clean and has been so.
Emails from MustangsMustangs are in many systems throughout the world and some of those systems have been infected. The virus uses other email addresses in the "from" box and very cleverly creates different subject lines using text from other emails to keep you interested.

So it appears that I sent you something when I did not, someone else's system sent it without their knowledge.

It works mostly with Outlook Express (which I do not use) and spreads and spreads to other systems.

I receive approx. 50 infected emails every day, some with
familiar names, some not. It is a big pain in the butt and does not seem to be going away yet.

Advice to all is to always use anti-virus software when online and go to your software's page and download the fix for the Klez virus and use it even if you don't think you have it. Never open attachments that are not from someone you know and with a message telling you what it is and make sure that any attachment passes cleanly through your anti-viurs program.

Also beware, there are emails out there that send you an attachment to fix the virus, but it is NOT a fix, just more of the virus.


Thanks Tulio for bringing it to my attention.

Curtis

: I received from you an e-mail titled :An humorous game.
:
: Since I have also seen messages with the same title, in di
: fferent languages, I did not open it. But likely, it is in
: fected with a virus.
:
: Tulio

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