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Klez worm and it's variants disables one's antivirus programs, i.e. Norton, McAffee, etc. It grabs your email list as well as any message links on programs such as ICQ, IM and the like (probably name lists from this board too) and replicates itself. It then sends itself out as a phony message with your name as a sender or the name of someone on your lists tricking you into thinking it's a legit message. Then it disables all your links and exe files rendering your programs and your computer useless.
There is a fix available free from Norton, McAffee, et.al. , but once your links & exe files are gone they're gone.
Get the fix and load it pre-infection as it spoofs the worm into thinking you're already infected and it'll leave you alone.
The worm won't infect Mac's,Linux or Unix OS.
The up side to all this is that you finally get to clean all the junk off your hd. You also learn what Fdisk and Format c: is all about
All those in favor of immediate capital punishment to the perps of these worms, signify by the usual sign.
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