Viruswarning : " Klez "

[jadison]

I've been tracking this for awhile now, and it isn't getting any prettier. The worm/virus: W32.Klez.gen@mm a variant of W32.Klez has spread like wildfire across the nation and even the world. Top antivirus sites: Symantec, McAfee, and Sophos have all reported this virus and its variants to be a serious threat.

Symantec's Security Response team has the technical details on this virus and lists the following as its variants: W32/Klez.e@MM, W32/Klez.h@MM, W32/Klez.gen@MM, WORM_KLEZ.E, WORM_KLEZ.G, I-Worm.Klez.e, I-Worm.Klez.h, W32/Klez-E, W32/Klez-G, W32/Klez-H. The threat has also been upgraded to Category 4.
Here are the technical details about this virus:

"W32.Klez.gen@mm" is a mass-mailing worm that searches the Windows address book for email addresses and sends messages to all recipients that it finds. The worm uses its own SMTP engine to send the messages.The subject and attachment name of incoming emails is randomly chosen. The attachment will have one of the following extensions: .bat, .exe, .pif or .scr. The worm exploits a vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express in an attempt to execute itself when you open or even preview the message."

At Sophos.com, the virus takes #1 on the Top Ten Chart with 77.8% being reports sent in (#2 is only at 5.8%, for comparison).

McAfee has reported this virus as a Medium Risk Assessment and states that home users are at a much higher risk of infection than corporate users.

Norton Antivirus Users

Click here for information on this virus and its variants.
Click here for the removal tool (Symantec Highly recommends you use this tool to attempt removal of this virus and all traces of it first before doing anything else!).
Click here for the latest Antivirus updates (via the Intelligent Updater).

McAfee Antivirus Users

Click here for information on this virus and its variants provided by McAfee.
Click here for removal instructions.
Click here for the latest DAT updates.

Sophos Antivirus Users

Click here for removal instructions.
Click here for the latest Antivirus updates.

AVG Antivirus Users

Click here for removal instructions.

For those of you using Trend Micro's Antivirus tool, Click here for more information, and the necessary resources to get rid of this virus.

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