Carol's mail seems to have been sent by a classic worm virus from a machine with Carol, Walt and myself in the address book.

This can self replicate and sends itself out to everyone in the address book, choosing random addresses and servers from the address book to put in the FROM field, so as to make you think it came from somewhere else.

In fact quite a good description of the Klez virus!

It certainly did not come from me.

if you are worried about this and want to disinfect for sure go to the Symantec web site to downloads and virus removal tools and look up Klez and download the free program to get rid of it. You usually have to run these in dos or windows safe mode for best effect depending on instructions.

if dos:
save the file directly to your c:\ drive.
reboot hitting F8 before windows has a chance to start.
select command prompt only.
at the c:\ prompt type the file name and press enter.
wait for completion of scan.
when finished press ctrl+alt+del to restart windows.
Move the file out of the root of your c: drive to an archive where you can find it again if needing it.
Don't mess with any other files in the root of your c:\ drive!

if windows safe mode:
do the same but choose safe mode instead of command prompt.
go to file and double click on it.
wait for completion of scan.
reboot.



[This message has been edited by technicsplayer (edited 06-06-2002).]