Buddha Posted May 7, 2002 Share Posted May 7, 2002 Question for you IT specialists. We've been getting a steady stream of Klez viruses coming through our work emails. The Norton software is up to date on all computers, yet people have been emailing us to say they've received the Klez from us. Full system scans using Norton have turned up nothing, and as we receive infected emails the attachments are automatically quarantined. Is it possible that Klez is picking up our email addresses on someone else's infected computer and sending them out that way, rather than our computers actually emailing out the virus??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkPSkins Posted May 7, 2002 Share Posted May 7, 2002 Yes Budda, you are right, the Klez virus will pick up random addresses from address books and web pages to use as the sender. It will look like the email originated from you, or some other ficticious sender. If you run a trace you will see that the IP addresses are not consistent with the senders, if you are privy to that info. Klez is very good as far as viruses are concerend. We here are also getting a lot of emial saying we sent the virus because in our business our emails are very "public", not to mention that a lot of dummies who did contract the viurs have our people and groups in their address books.. The latest pattern file from Norton will find and clean this virus. This is just the annoyance level of this virus. The bastages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Evil Genius Posted May 7, 2002 Share Posted May 7, 2002 Read this - http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=75&ncid=738&e=8&u=/nf/20020506/tc_nf/17590 It has some insight on the Klez and future Doomsday viruses... Not much of a techie...but I date one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wacky Ralph Posted May 8, 2002 Share Posted May 8, 2002 First of all, it's not called KLEZ. It's called PEZ. And it's a candy that comes in a little toy. I think you're probably thinking of something else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCS:BraveCaringSoul Posted May 8, 2002 Share Posted May 8, 2002 Interesting article TEG. I wonder if our military and essential infrastructure systems (medical, power, etc.) are suceptible to a large scale, state sponsored, virus attack? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RySkins Posted May 8, 2002 Share Posted May 8, 2002 Ballcoach - that sig's a keeper! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen-like Todd Posted May 8, 2002 Share Posted May 8, 2002 I'm disappointed Ralph. It goes like this... "No, people aren't saying they got the KLEZ from you, their saying they got the CLAP from you!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fansince62 Posted May 8, 2002 Share Posted May 8, 2002 BCS....good question.......listen to what Richard Clarke (Pres Bush's cyber security czar) has to say on the subject Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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