Virus "Kleez"

[Søren Krarup Olesen]

There is a virus called Kleez, currently having happy days on the 
Internet. It sends messages using the infected computer's address book, 
subject lines, takes from mails etc.

This basically means, that you can expect to get e-mails (including the 
virus) that appears to come from friends or persons you know. However, 
that does not mean, that this friend or person is infected themselves, 
it only means that this friend is stored on the address list of the 
infected computer. I was told, that certain versions of Kleez actually 
presents itself as being a tool for protection against Kleez!!!

So, the advice is simple: Do never open attached files (even from 
friends), unless you expect to receive such a file. Of course in some 
cases the main text may be of a personal nature, so there is no 
reliability doubt, but if a mail goes like, "Check this, quite cool" or 
likewise, then just delete it.

As always, this is a Windows Outlook problem only.

So, to Stefan's recent mails; chances are that Don's PC isn't infected 
at all, but his e-mail address certainly is in someone's address book. 
Hope this someone reads this and is able to clean his system. (His 
PC-system that is :-)

Søren