A dangerous new virus called W32/Klez.h@MM threatens home computer users. It was detected just last week and has caused serious problems to many personal and business machines across the nation. It does not require that you open an attachment! It will activate if you simply open the e-mail message. The worm mails itself to email addresses in the Windows Address Book, plus addresses extracted from files on the victim machine. It arrives in an email message whose subject and body is composed from a pool of strings carried within the virus. For example: Subject: A very funny website or Subject: 1996 Microsoft Corporation or Subject: Hello,honey or Subject: Initing esdi or Subject: Editor of PC Magazine. or Subject: Some questions or Subject: Telephone number Do not open any messages that have any of the above subject lines. Ken Hale, a TN-Bird subscriber, had it to invade his McAfee antivirus program and then take down his operating system. He has had a computer tech working for 8 hours to recover his system. McAfee acknowledges on their website that it is invading their antivirus programs and have an updated fix for uses to prevent such a problem. You can read detailed technical information from the McAfee virus website at: http://vil.mcafee.com or more specific at: http://vil.mcafee.com/dispVirus.asp?virus_k=99455 They have raised the risk assessment of this threat to Medium after seeing an increase in prevalence in just 24 hours. Home users are at a greater risk of infection, as they tend to update their DATs less frequently then corporations. As such, the risk of becoming infected in a corporate environment is lower. I hope this is helpful information and that is serves the best interest of of our subscribers. Wallace Coffey Owner TN-Birds Net Bristol, TN =================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBER===================== The TN-Bird Net requires you to sign your messages with first and last name, city (town) and state abbreviation. ----------------------------------------------------- To post to this mailing list, simply send email to: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ----------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send email to: tn-bird-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Topographical Maps located at http://topozone.com/find.asp * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Visit the Tennessee Ornithological Society web site at http://www.tnbirds.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * TN-Bird Net Owner: Wallace Coffey, Bristol, TN jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx (423) 764-3958 =========================================================