Klez is prepared to go on its bimonthly file deletion spree on Saturday. Is your system clean? Are you sure? Klez Poised to Attack on July 13th July 12, 2002 By: Brett Glass Saturday the 13th will be an unlucky day for Windows users whose computers are infected with the ubiquitous Klez worm. The most common variants of the worm -- now the most widely distributed ever -- go on a rampage on the 13th of every odd month (January, March, May, July, September, and November), using a sophisticated multithreaded programming technique to scribble every file on every disk drive from A: to Z:. (Some variants of Klez trigger on the 6th day of each odd-numbered month and are more destructive during certain months than in others.) Worm Crawls In But Won't Crawl Out Because Klez's payload is so nasty, it pays to make extra sure that your computer is not infected. Unfortunately, even if your antivirus software has not alerted you to the presence of the worm, it might still be there unless you have updated your antivirus patterns religiously. Why? Because Klez is capable of deactivating nearly all of the most popular antivirus packages... if it gets onto the machine before the antivirus software is both installed and updated with the latest patterns. Read more here: http://www.extremetech.com/print_article/0,3998,a=2901 5,00.asp Copyright (c) 2002 Ziff Davis Media Inc. All Rights Reserved. ~*~*~*~*~ To unsubscribe from our list send an email to hackfix-virusnews-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?Subject=unsubscribe. For a complete list of email commands for our list send an email to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with a subject line of "info hackfix-virusnews" without the quotes. ~*~*~*~*~