Odd email from Shrapnel

[Gandalph]

My klez experience is down to 2 per day now that I have convinced everyone I know to get clean. At the peak of my experience with klez in my circle of contacts, I got as many as 7 per day.

[disabled]

For about a week solid two weeks back I was bombarded by different Versions of Klez. I deleted them all.

[Fyron]

Wow. This is the first time I've ever gotten Klez.

[Alpha Kodiak]

Well, I just got Klez'ed. Got back from my vacation and was checking my email. I never open attachments, but apparently one was rigged for Outlook Express to auto open something (or something like that...), so when I deleted one suspicious email the next one previewed and seemed to do something, though I couldn't tell what. I deleted it, but lo and behold the next morning I got 51 bounced emails from old addresses in my address book (along with a few bounces by systems telling me I was infected with W32.KLEZ or some such. I am on my nice clean (and currently isolated) laptop right now while I'm working on killing the little bugger on my two networked desktops. Teach me to not keep my machines updated with nice virus checker files.

[CW]

I stopped using OE a long time ago. I think a lot of M$ software try to tell you what you should do instead of the other way around. Except for a certain network problem I'm happily using Pegasus Mail as my mail client.

[Spuzzum]

My first and only experience with getting Klez in my inbox was from someone who was deliberately trying to send it to me. Two attempts, actually; both had information that a simple address-book-mass-mailing wouldn't have had -- it's easy enough to recognise that it wasn't done with personal intent when it says "IE.pif", but it's not so easy to forgive-and-forget when it says "verbs.pif" (which is specific lingo to the BYOND community that I'm a part of).

I contacted their ISP (the headers were very poorly faked, so finding their ISP was easy as pie), but they never responded. =P

[Alpha Kodiak]

Up until now, it never seemed worth the effort to get rid of OE, but that will probably change now! Whatever I've got now seems to be putting up a pretty good fight against both Norton and McAfee, but I think I am making progress. Fortunately, I have just about everything backed up that is of importance, so if all else fails I can reformat my system, but I don't think that will be necessary.

I sure would like to get my claws into someone out there that is responsible for this beast, though!

[TerranC]

I have never gotten klez...

*I feel so left alone.*

Do any of you run Norton? There is an option for it to scan incoming attachments automatically and deletes it as soon as it detects something, I believe.

[Alpha Kodiak]

Yes, Norton does have such an option and it works quite well. I have it at work. Unfortunately, my home system was not adequately protected (but it will be, once this mess is resolved!)