On Friday morning my computer was infected with the KLEZ virus. WE use
Outlook express for our mail utility, in my inbox were a few emails I knew
were not right because of the sender name and subject lines ie. your
password, honey, cool game you'll like this etc... some had attachments and
others did not, but I have to click on the email itself to delete it which
is what I did. and then to my horror I watched my computer go haywire, I
could not stop the download it was automatically doing, nor could I get my
computer to disconnect from the net, so I killed my computer from the plug
in the wall. Upon trying to reboot my computer I found that it had deleted
all my Mcafee virus software, deleted my address book, and turns out went
through my disk and anyone who has ever emailed us used those emails and
sent the virus to them. also any emails I had saved from the numerous lists
myself and my family are on for all our different hobbies, as this is a
family computer and each of us has our own email address from this computer,
it took those email addresses and sent the virus out to them too. My
husband spent about 14 hours repairing the damage this virus did to our
computer it even effected the computers BIOS. In my inbox this morning
there were new messages with the same subject lines but this time they all
had attachments so I was able to delete without them downloading. Does
anyone have new information on this virus and how to prevent it form doing
this again? I am sorry if my computer sent out the emails to you, I am
seriously thinking of getting a MAC so this doesn't happen again.
Lisa Ann
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