Klez and Idiots don't mix....
May. 7th, 2002 10:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
patgundWell, the Klez virus claimed a rather amusing victim. Namely one of my problem children at work. Who's home PC was infected with Klez.
Now, Klez spoofs the "from:" line in an email, so it grabs whatever's in the Windows Address Book and uses that. It then sends itself out to the rest of that list, along with a file grabbed from random off the drive of the infected PC.
Well, the address it spoofed was one of our senior researchers. The address it sent out to was our interal email list. The document it included was a very long and detailed S&M fantasy, with names, about her and her boyfriend.............
Oops. And again I say, oops.
Managed to remove the email sent to us from the email lists on the server before it got to 2/3 of the machines in the lab. Which left 1/3. Including the researcher, who left very red-faced.
Oops. Karma in action?
Now, Klez spoofs the "from:" line in an email, so it grabs whatever's in the Windows Address Book and uses that. It then sends itself out to the rest of that list, along with a file grabbed from random off the drive of the infected PC.
Well, the address it spoofed was one of our senior researchers. The address it sent out to was our interal email list. The document it included was a very long and detailed S&M fantasy, with names, about her and her boyfriend.............
Oops. And again I say, oops.
Managed to remove the email sent to us from the email lists on the server before it got to 2/3 of the machines in the lab. Which left 1/3. Including the researcher, who left very red-faced.
Oops. Karma in action?
