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Most Destructive virus ever
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Name: Greg
Date: May 28, 2002 at 05:56:40 Pacific
Subject: Most Destructive virus ever |
Comment: hi Whats the worst virus youve ever seen?
(the most destructive) Greg0
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Response Number 1
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Name: grassed off
Date: May 28, 2002 at 06:39:20 Pacific
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Reply: widowmaker 5747
you name it it was infected
including nav only option to wipe hard drive and start again :-(
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Response Number 6
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Name: Norm
Date: May 28, 2002 at 16:45:45 Pacific
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Reply: Klez.h appears to be overtaking SirCam as the most virulent computer virus to date. According to antivirus outsourcing firm MessageLabs, which scans e-mails for corporate clients, Klez.h overtook SirCam on Sunday and continues to spread, with the company's servers blocking up to 20,000 copies every working day. To date, MessageLabs has stopped over 800,000 copies of Klez.h. This particular version of the virus, which surfaced in April, is also known as Klez.g and Klez.k, depending on the security advisory that is referring to it.
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Response Number 7
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Name: Brent
Date: May 29, 2002 at 09:00:20 Pacific
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Reply: Prior to Klez, I had received only one virus-infected e-mail to my personal addresses, and that spans almost 6 years. I have received over 2 dozen Klez-generated e-mails just in the last week, so that tells you how prolific it has become.
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Response Number 8
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Name: CDC
Date: May 29, 2002 at 09:16:54 Pacific
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Reply: Sircam blind-sided me. I wasn't in the office to deal with it. Took me weeks to stop it's transmission and repair damage. When Klez hit, I imediately warned all the end users and had them upgrade the virus protection files. To their credit, most people followed my instructions. This turned out to be only a minor annoyance. Also because of Sircam my network is locked up better regarding shared resources. But Brent is correct. The first several days, I received a couple of hundred warnings that Klez was being stopped at the server.
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