[Heathkit] Please Resend

[Mike Hyder -N4NT-]

Phil, OB, the klez virus infects some versions of Outlook Express
without your ever having to open anything.  A good anti-v i r u s
program will catch it if it catches it.  What you may not realize is
that the klez replicates itself by sending out numerous emails to
people in the address book of the afflicted computer, which could
cause a popular person like Duane to have hundreds (or thousands) of
emails to deal with.  Spending half a minute per email on just a
hundred emails takes 25 minutes -- a thousand takes over 4 hours.

Perhaps Duane can just forward them all to you and you can sort
through them for him?  I don't think he is paranoid -- just tired of
being inundated with junk.

73, Mike N4NT

----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Lefever" <plefever@isd.net>
To: <heathkit@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2002 6:12 PM
Subject: Re: [Heathkit] Please Resend


At 12:13 05/05/2002 -0400, Duane Fischer, W8DBF wrote:

>
>If you recently sent me mail to 'w8dbf@usol.com', please resend.
Because of
>multiple
>virus attack attempts on that system, I have killed all waiting mail,
all
>saved
>mail and all unanswered mail.


While I agree that we have a new rapidly spreading virus
(Worm Klez.E) but it is awfully drastic to delete your
incoming mail! If this is how you choose to protect yourself
you can never receive any mail via the Internet!

Go to www.antivirus.com and Download a trial of PC Cillin.
Also don't open any attachments you don't trust without
scanning. You won't get infected unless you open the
attachment.

Also beware of any anti virus "tools" that are emailed to
you, these are certainly viral!

Also if you just wish to perform a quick FREE scan of a
PC go to www.antivirus.com then click on free tools. Then
find the "Housecall" free scan. This is a handy application
that actually scans your system while you are online and
uses Trend Micro's online virus database that is always
current. I use this on any system I work on that doesn't
have decent AV software on it.

It pays to be very careful but we don't need to be paranoid.

73

Phil Lefever