Hardboy: Is this me, or is this virus Yet-Another-Made-In-VB-Virus-And-Is-Only-Spread-Because-People-Use-MSOutlook ??
Not as far as I know. I get this virus e-mailed to me five times a day, and it doesn't cause any major warnings, VB scripting, or ActiveX requests in Outlook Express. After two years of no problems, I finally bought Norton Antivirus just to be safe, and found no viruses on my computer. I've never gotten a virus just by downloading mail from my mail server, although I heard that it can happen.
Mostly, it's just the same old crap: people being stupid and running executable files they get in their mail. Actually, Klez spreads itself as a PIF, but it is really an executable. PIFs are Program Information Files, and are normally links to executables. You still have to "run" it to get the virus.
What really ticks me off is that Klez spoofs the "From" address, so the address that shows up in the "From" line might not be from the computer that sent the e-mail. Klez is a real pain
BTW, what does Klez *DO*?
