RE: Klez Virus is not the list's Fault

[Joan D. Levin <jdlevin...>]

I've gotten a lot of klez virus in the past few days.  I have no idea
where it is from, but so far my Norton Anti Virus (which updates itself
automatically, sometimes as often as every day or so) has picked it up
and quarantined it for me to get rid of.  Joan

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
[mailto:owner-jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org] On Behalf Of Eliezer Kaplan
Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 11:36 AM
To: World music from a Jewish slant
Subject: Re: Klez Virus is not the list's Fault


> AFAIK, there is in fact no way that this virus can come through a
> listserv and since not everyone on the list has gotten it (I haven't),

> it is clear that the list is not to blame.
>

I think that's wrong- another list I belong to (hosted by Yahoo) was
sending me oodles of Klez that most likely went through their listserv.
BTW, Klez.h only affects IE5 setups (though it did try unsuccesfully to
infect my IE6/ XP Pro setup- I did have to manually clean some junk out
of my registry). Also, as I mentioned in an earlier post, Symantec has a
little utility to remove the virus- links to it can be found by starting
from www.symantec.com and following the obvious trail.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Peck" <danpeck (at) panix(dot)com>
To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 10:59 AM
Subject: Klez Virus is not the list's Fault


> For those who have recevied email with the Klez variant virus
> apparently from this list, please read the following:
>
> The Klez virus pickes up random email addresses from the victim's hard

> drive files and sends itself out (using its own email software)
> spoofing (forging) the From: address. So wherever it says it came
> from, it didn't. Even though it appears to have come from the Jewish
> Music list, it actually could have come from any computer in the world

> that had "jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org" in any file on the hard drive.
>
> AFAIK, there is in fact no way that this virus can come through a
> listserv and since not everyone on the list has gotten it (I haven't),

> it is clear that the list is not to blame.
>
> For further info, refer to
> http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,52055,00.html.
>
> HTH.
>
> Dan Peck
>
>
>





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