well...its offical my comp. has a VIRUS!!!

[insert_car]

damn it. i recently received a bunch of very starnge emails. cautiously i didn't not open them because i thought it could be a virus. we tonight i recieved 2 more strange emails and then one from kelli and the subject was "by ebay". i was curious be cautious of this email too. so i have all these unopend emails that i have been keeping. i little bit later i open the one from kelli. IT WAS A VIRUS! if you get an email from me donot open it!! i think this is one of those that send it to everyone in you address book. this sucks and my virus scan is fucked so what can i do?

[Adam]

call me over... i'll fix it...

[insert_car]

can you come now...its the KLEZ WORM. :evil:

[Adam]

can you come now...its the KLEZ WORM. :evil:

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/FixKlez.com

That'll remove Klez from your cpu...

And btw... You can only get Klez if your running outlook. Then my next move would be to not open any other files or folders and go directly to the Auburn website to get the FREE McAfee Antivirus software...

http://www.auburn.edu/oit/virus/start.html

If you need any help after that 334-524-6241

[insert_car]

SWEET...thanks for the sites adam!!! laterz

[SpeedGyrl]

I received one of those e-bay e-mails yesterday. However, I didn't open it. I think I just deleted it. Sorry your computer caught a cold. But, I didn't e-mail you anything.

[WiggiE]

I received one of those e-bay e-mails yesterday. However, I didn't open it. I think I just deleted it. Sorry your computer caught a cold. But, I didn't e-mail you anything.

If you didn't directly email it to mike yourself, then you have the virus as well.

[Adam]

OK... To clear up a little misunderstanding...
Klez, it's a doozy of a virus...

OK... Let me walk you through a Klez infection real quick...


You receive an infected email (don't worry about who it's from, it's not from that person).
Klez attacks your computer including it's virus package randomly around in different files on your computer.
Then pulls all the email addresses it can find from your address book and all cached webpages on your computer.
Then sends out an email to all the addresses it has collected. It also includes a random file from your computer as an attachment.
Now the catch is that the virus doesn't use your name as the From: field in the email. It uses one of the email addresses it's captured.


So you get infected. It collects 3 email addresses from your computer.
adam@auburn.edu, joe@hotmail.com, bob@yahoo.com.

This is what happens.
The virus is sent to
adam@auburn.edu ---- From joe@hotmail.com
joe@hotmail.com ----- From bob@yahoo.com
bob@yahoo.com ----- From adam@auburn.edu

So... No matter who you received it from... It doesn't matter, it's usually not the person that is infected to begin with.

Also to clear Kelli. She didn't send anyone the virus. She couldn't have sent anyone the virus because she uses a Mac :D... Mac's can't get infected w/ Klez so it couldn't be possible.

Hope this clears up a few things.

[insert_car]

I received one of those e-bay e-mails yesterday. However, I didn't open it. I think I just deleted it. Sorry your computer caught a cold. But, I didn't e-mail you anything.

If you didn't directly email it to mike yourself, then you have the virus as well.

Thats what i told her....if she mailed it to me and didn't know it then she has klez and doesn't know she does.

[Adam]

I received one of those e-bay e-mails yesterday. However, I didn't open it. I think I just deleted it. Sorry your computer caught a cold. But, I didn't e-mail you anything.

If you didn't directly email it to mike yourself, then you have the virus as well.

Thats what i told her....if she mailed it to me and didn't know it then she has klez and doesn't know she does.

read the above post

[insert_car]

huummm. thanks for the clear up adam...but it cleaned up all but one of the files from the virus. it says i have to go in safe mode and delete it manualy. i been in safe mode a few times but forgot how to get there. i know its when you shut it off and it boots back up right? how do i manualy delete it?

[Adam]

huummm. thanks for the clear up adam...but it cleaned up all but one of the files from the virus. it says i have to go in safe mode and delete it manualy. i been in safe mode a few times but forgot how to get there. i know its when you shut it off and it boots back up right? how do i manualy delete it?

As soon as you see the starting windows 98 screen press F8 immediatly...

Then choose boot into safe mode.

[edit]

BTW.. I was thinking... No I didn't send anyone a virus as well.. If your infected or anyone you know is infected there is probably a high likely hood that my domain std64.com is included in some emails...

I didn't send anyone a virus but, if you've ever surfed any pages under my domain std64.com(like right now) my email address is included in your website cache. Therefore my email address would be included in your Klez email you received...

It's a fairly complicated little virus... Ask me to explain it to you one day when I'm drunk. It makes more sense to me then....

[insert_car]

this p.o.s. is pissing me off!! :twisted: :twisted: call me 256-654-2333 or 334-502-8451

[insert_car]

actually i will call you tomorrow. i'm tired and pissed. later

[Jess]

I got network associates (Mcafee) virus scan around somewhere if you need it

[Frosty_DUB]

I got an email from kelly too.

I didnt open it, just deleted it. heh. :lol:

[insert_car]

yeah its using kelli's email i guess. was it about ebay...clint?