hackfix-virusnews: Klez: Don't Believe 'From' Line (interesting article)
- From: "Christy" <snowz@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: hackfix-virusnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 11:36:34 -0400
Hopefully this one will explain to those that don't
understand the strange messages they have been
receiving
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Klez: Don't Believe 'From' Line
By Michelle Delio
2:00 a.m. April 30, 2002 PDT
Some Internet users have recently received an e-mail
message from a dead friend. Others have been
subscribed to obscure mailing lists. Some have lost
their Internet access after being accused of
spamming, and still others have received e-mailed
pornography from a priest.
They're actually experiencing some of the stranger
side effects of the Klez computer virus.
These ersatz e-mails containing the virus are
creating Klez-provoked arguments and accusations that
are now
spreading as fast as the worm itself.
The latest variant of the Klez virus started
spreading 10 days ago. The virus e-mails itself from
infected machines using a bogus "From" address
randomly plucked from all e-mail addresses stored on
an infected computer's hard drive or network.
Read more here:
http://wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,52174,00.html
=A9 Copyright 2002, Lycos, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Partial Article Printed with Permission.
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