RED ALERT

“when we open e-mail even from people we know. Last night I received (or so I thought) an e-mail from one of my brothers. Something like 'This is a very cool new website. You should really enjoy this'. No attachments. Now, this is very uncharacteristic of Steven to send something like this in the first place but for him to make a mistake like that is very rare indeed. Anyway, I reply and say 'That's great, but what is it?'. He writes back telling me he didn't send the message!
Somehow, the virus-mongers have figured out how to access addresses in our computers, or so it would seem. Thankfully, McAfee must have hidden the attachments so that I couldn't open them. McAfee also did a virus scan. Very scary...”

“Yep. They've been doing that with the Micro$quish address books for a little while now.”

“Father Goose... that sounds like the Klez virus that attacked my computer. You might want to go scan your computer's hard drive off of the Norton website just to make sure.

The same thing happened to me, I received an email that didn't have an attachment, the subject was just hi. I didn't know the person but the email was sent through my school based email account and sometimes I receive email's from ppl I dont know. What had happened was that the virus attacked the guy's address book and got sent to me. I left the message in my inbox and the next time I checked my email, it had an attachment, that I did not open, and that is when I discovered it was a virus and deleted it. I didn't even realize I was infected by the virus for a month. My computer was just running very slow and when I tried running disk defragmenter, that wouldn't work, I realized something was wrong with my computer. I called gateway and they told me to run the scan from the Norton webiste and I discovered I had 41 infected files.

I read on the Klez removal page that you don't even have to open an attachment in order to receive klez, it is sent through the body of the email. and yes, that is very scary!”