KLEZ

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 11:47:23AM -0400, RonButters at AOL.COM wrote:
> In a message dated 8/20/2002 11:39:51 AM, einstein at FROGNET.NET writes:
>
> << I did NOT send a virus warning message--that msg is ITSELF the virus:
> delete
>
> it immediately!! >>
>
> Surely the message itself (which I did not get from ADS-L, so somewhere along
> the way it got purged before it reached me) can't convey the virus--surely
> one must open the attached file to get contaminated?

No, thanks to the wonders of Microsoft Windows, you can be infected
just by opening or previewing the message itself, you don't necessarily
have to open the attachment.

Jesse Sheidlower