hackfix-virusnews: Klez Poised to Attack on July 13th (interesting article)

  • From: "Christy" <snowz@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: hackfix-virusnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 15:55:45 -0400

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. 

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