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"Email virus warning"

Ok, I just got this email saying that I had sent another email to another user. This is the supposed email I sent:

From: chipseh
To: andyjames**@hotmail.com
Subject: A humour game
MIME-Version: 1.0

(Deleted part of email addy for this guys privacy)

So, the next thing is, I don't know how this got sent to him, but it definately wasn't me. It also contained snoopy.exe, which I guess would be a virus.

So if you get an email from me, it wasn't me.

I'm scared now. Better go do a system check.

Microchips wrote:
> Snoopy.exe was in actual fact the name for the virus:
> W32.klez.gen@mm


Yes, I forwarded my messages to the Hotmail staff and that is the exact same virus they told me about

I've recieved loads of these messages, mainly through MSNs Hotmail. They are exactly as Chippy describes. So I just blocked the address. It is due to the fact that the Hotmail servers have been infected. A lot of people using Hotmail have been getting them. I used to get 1 or 2 per day, so I just blocked the addy

Cheers for the warning ill have a check in my email account now

NAV is great! It found the virus, yes? That's +10 in my view.

Added along with NIS and the live updates, it's excellent.

No, Norton Anti-Virus is good. It updates weekly/monthly/bi-monthly/whenever you're online - depends how you set it. It's got a great intergrated Quarantine system.
It's not crap, actually.

Norton is crap, seriously, you want to get AVG anti virus - it is free at www.avg.com and it updates monthly or bi monthly. Works a treat.

Right, so I'm not the original infected comp? I downloaded and ran a specific search for it from Norton's webstie, and it couldn't find it.

So, does this mean that is was the Cheeseman person from the Web forum or me?

Ahhhhh..

Our old friend Klez.

This is the mother of viruses, millions of peope have had it passed on...
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From Apr 20th last year:

The latest variant of the Klez virus started spreading 10 days ago. The virus e-mails itself from infected machines using a bogus "From" address randomly plucked from all e-mail addresses stored on an infected computer's hard drive or network.

Recipients of the virus-laden e-mails, not understanding that the "From" information is virtually always phony -- or even that they have received a virus -- have been clogging networks with angry and confused e-mails that are causing a great deal of cyber-havoc. People signing up for newsletters and mailing lists that they never subscribed to has been a major source of frustration for both users and the list owners.

If Klez happens to send an e-mail "from" a user to an e-mail list's automatic subscribe address, the list software assumes the e-mail is a valid subscription request and begins sending mail to the user.
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That gets you the point.

It fakes the 'from' bit and emails the attachment. Loads of people have had problems because they've been accused of sending viruses...
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Quote from a certain website:

"I didn't send you a virus.

No, really.

If you've gotten an email recently from a "steakandcheese.com" email address with little or no text, and an attachment with the extension scr/pif/bat/exe, it's the klez virus, and I didn't send it to you. The sender's address in the From header is faked."

Snoopy.exe was in actual fact the name for the virus: W32.klez.gen@mm


I'm glad you can remove this sort of thing. I have to download a special removal tool for it, and it's getting to work now.

Its one of those 'pass-on' viruses that pathetic geeks write so it is forwarded to people in your address book and keeps getting passed on. Geeks.