Beware the Klez-E worm

04:38 - Wednesday 6 March 2002 by The Register
Source: Tom's Hardware – Keywords: beware, the, klez Category : Miscellaneous

The Klez-E worm is due to activate today on the tenth anniversary of Michelangelo, one of the first widespread computer viruses.


Like Michelangelo, Klez-E tries to destroy data on infected computers. It attempts to disable several anti-virus products and delete some anti-virus related files. Klez-E was first spotted last November and is still spreading. It usually arrives by email, with a variety of different subject headers explained in more detail here .


Full Story at The Register USA


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