I just received an e-mail from the webmaster with a virus. My Norton Antivirus caught it.

The subject was NOSHADE CLASS. There was no text in the message.

The attachment was ISPOPT.HTM (2.64 kb)

The virus was W32.Klez.H@mm. This is a version version of the WM.Niceday macro virus, but with a different, harmless payload macro.

I wondered if a virus got into your address book and sent them out to all of the members.

 

Klez is an odd virus...while it may look like it came from me or my address book, it did not. "webmaster@f150online.com" is not even an actual email account, but a forwarding address (or alias), so there is no actual email box that exists by any name on any server or any client, anywhere. It is a technical impossibility for an account with the name of "webmaster@f150online.com" to even send a message.

What is likely to have happened is that someone that fell victim to Klez had "webmaster@f150online.com" as one of their contacts in Outlook and it sent messages that looked like they came from this account ... again, an account which does not actually exist. I've received a few of these myself and been perplexed.

 

Steve,

I thought it was weird. I have gotten about 10 e-mails in the last week wiht this virus attached. I got one yesterday from cooltrucks@yahoo.com. Isn't there a member her anme cooltrucks?

 

That sounds familiar...it looks like a frequent visitor to the site must have gotten Klez. (or someone that has harvested email addresses from the site)