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WARNING: ANOTHER KLEZ VIRUS ON THE RAMPAGE
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Oct 23, 2002

My Norton has detected KLEZ in two e-mails that arrived from unknown sources, tagged \"allhollowmass\" in the subject line. These consist of an empty message with two files attached (may be *.scr, *.html or *.exe).



Take care!
 
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Which Klez variant was it? Oct 23, 2002

Your NAV log should show you which variant of the Klez virus was attached. The reason I\'m asking is that the current virus definitions (updated by Symantec on 16 October) already contain eight different versions...
 
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32, I believe (???) Oct 23, 2002

I got rid of it so fast I can\'t be sure (I updated very recently).



What bothers me is that this seems to be taking advantage of upcoming Holloween traffic (who doesn\'t like receiving greeting cards)? Trojan horse effects.
 
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W32.Klez.H@mm Oct 23, 2002

It came in a file called \"Height.exe\".
 


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WARNING: ANOTHER KLEZ VIRUS ON THE RAMPAGE






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