Someone has another case of klez...

ChopsMcgraw · Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2002 4:02 pm Post subject:

I am once again receiving multiple klez infected e-mails a day, with trumpet related subject headers. http://www.symantec.com has a free klez repair program called fixklez, I would suggest that people having problems with their computers opening .exe files run this program, and be careful when you use outlook, that ill-begotten son of a Gates. Anyhow, just trying to help-

ChopsMcgraw

tom turner · Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2002 6:13 pm Post subject:

Hi Chops,

Your advice is VERY VALID AND IMPORTANT!

ALSO . . .
If EVERY poster on the forum who e-mails others from the forum would install a great anti-virus program like Norton the ol' "Klez32" virus wouldn't be hittin' my inbox AT LEAST once a day in "spam" e-mail messages.

For the past month or so this has happened but the Norton "quarantines" these messages before they can be opened. All the messages are "spam" mail from low-life e-mail address stealers who use the Klez virus to invade and steal e-mail addresses from any and all who open an infected e-mail without anti-virus protection.

To any and all forum readers who read this . . . install an anti-virus system on your computer before someone sends you something that distroys your hard drive instead of just stealing the names of those who correspond with you.

Sincerely,

Tom Turner

edtaylor · Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2002 12:15 pm Post subject:

Right on Tom, I have double protection.

I like Outlook Express so I installed Norton, plus my ISP now has a filter that catches both viruses and spam.

What options are available rather than Outlook Express? I tried Eudora but didn't like it.
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DaveH · Heavyweight Member Joined: 20 Nov 2001 Posts: 3861

edtaylor

What is your ISP that provides that type of filtering?

I have Norton's - did not know any ISP did that...

DaveH · Heavyweight Member Joined: 20 Nov 2001 Posts: 3861

Norton's does a great job of catching these things - I have found a couple in the last couple weeks and Norton's caught them so they could be quarantined and deleted from the system without any apparent problems.
Norton's has the live update feature which updates the software regularly. Keeping updated is very important. Also it scans the system at least once per week and scans all incoming and outgoing e-mail.

[ This Message was edited by: DaveH on 2002-09-07 21:54 ]

_PhilPicc · Posted: Sat Sep 07, 2002 7:59 pm Post subject:

I update my Norton once a week and my system also keeps track of updates.

Yeah, great protection,
Phil
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Wheat_Grass_Juice · Regular Member Joined: 08 Sep 2002 Posts: 21

A couple of nights ago, I received a virus from one of my happy campers in TPIN; thus, I closed my account with them and opened up this refreshing and healthful account ... but yucky taste.

I spent the night downloading a 30 day free trial of Symantec Norton Antivirus. It found the virus and quarantined it. It is called Happey99.exe. I have purchased an antivirus program with a firewall combination (Norton Internet Security 2002) which I hope to install within a couple of weeks.

For an E-Mail program, I am using Outlook 2000 and I have heard that both Outlook e-mail programs have an open door policy toward viruses. I am looking for another e-mail program in the mean time. Do you have any suggestions?

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