KLEZ

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 12:00:13PM -0400, RonButters at AOL.COM wrote:
> In a message dated 8/20/2002 11:55:36 AM, jester at PANIX.COM writes:
>
> << 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. >>
>
> Is this true for a Mac as well? Fortunately for me, my ADS-L messages come
> first to my Duke address, and the Duke system seems to delete a lot of
> infected stuff. This is not true, however, of stuff that comes to me through
> AOL.

No, the Klez virus will not infect Macintoshes. Nor, for that matter,
any Unix-based OS.

Ditching MS Outlook would increase your system's security by a
hundredfold in one easy step, though, if you wanted to stay on
a Windows machine.

Jesse Sheidlower