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Date Posted: 21:54:03 05/19/02 Sun
Author: Schnee
Subject: Virus Warning

Hi y'all.

I just wanted to mention that a virus/worm has been making the rounds through fanfic author email addies. (I think for awhile now...I saw it mentioned elsewhere a few weeks back.) I'm not sure who may have become infected. The virus is W32.KlezH@mm. See http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.klez.h@mm.html for complete details.

This worm can appear as either new mail or returned mail. The sender shown on the mail may not be the infected individual. It cloaks itself with from and to addies from the infected person's address book. In the returned mail instance, it appears you are the person sending the mail, making you think perhaps you are infected when in fact virus scan shows you are not. It is all a ploy by the worm to get you to open the email attachment, since it is supposedly from yourself.

I have yahoo mail, and thus the virus attachments are removed and I'm not at risk for infection. (At least so far as I can tell.) But I'm in someone's address book that is infected because I've gotten about 5 such emails in 2-3 days, mostly as returned mail. These emails have included other fanfic author addies who are not even in my address book.

I'm posting this to remind everyone to update their virus definitions or virus scan software, if you haven't done so recently. And to beware of returned mail with attachments since the worm does appear to be perstent and making the rounds with LFNer email addies.

This public service announcement is concluded. We now return you to your regularly scheduled nekkid Mikey viewing. ;)


Schnee

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[> Thank you, Schnee. :-) -- Shirleym, 11:41:32 05/22/02 Wed


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