Weird virus going around.

[Neil Jones]

This is a genuine virus warning. There is a virus going around called
WORM_KLEZ.G. It is a real pain in the backside and it uses false 
identities. <grin>

Seriously though folks this thing spreads via infected attachments.
It sends you  two files one is the virus the other is a random file lifted 
off the sender's computer. I had one recently that had a lovely JPEG of a 
butterfly on it.  (Running under Linux I can cautiously examine files without 
fear of being infected.)

Most importantly it forges the from address, picking one from the system 
somewhere. I know that someone on  Entomo-l is transmitting this virus with 
my variant email address on it. I used to use several email addresses 
something at nwjones..etc to filter different lists. I posted a warning there 
and several other people  who have been impersonated by this virus have 
contacted me.
The example, with the butterfly picture, that I received was sent from Taiwan 
yet the reply to address was in Australia.

I know I cannot have this virus since I_do_NOT_ run windows which  it needs 
to run under.

It is definitely doing the rounds of the entomological community so beware.
It may be impersonating you too.

--
Neil Jones- Neil at nwjones.demon.co.uk http://www.butterflyguy.com/
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"At some point I had to stand up and be counted. Who speaks for the
butterflies?" Andrew Lees - The quotation on his memorial at Crymlyn Bog
National Nature Reserve

 
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