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Originally posted by chideltjen
here's a weird story...
i have actually gotten large emails (like 120K and up) from people that I know... generally sisters. When I open them, there is nothing there, so I wonder what is taking up 120K? Also, since I have yahoo, these strange emails go to my bulk mail even tho they have an entry in my address book...
ANYWAY... i emailed one of the girls that i got this strange email from. She emailed me back and said she didn't email me but her computer had contracted a virus from MY email address. Now... norton is up to date and usually tells me if something fishy is going on. There were no viruses on my computer at the time of the email.
Anyone had his happen?
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You got the klez worm. Norton has a worm finder tool on their website. Use it to scan your computer and remove the culprit. The worm attaches it self to your email application and sends itself out to everyone in your address book. Let any friends that contact you about it know not to open it and to run the worm finder. I didn't have anti-virus software on my home desktop (I'm work with computers all day, so I know how stupid this was). It had so many worms on it, that I couldn't even install anti-virus software. I had to reformat the whole hard drive, which means I lost everything that I hadn't already saved on disks. If you don't already have anti-virus software, spend the $50 and get it. It's a good investment.