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Whatever you do, don't turn off your system until you cleanse it first!

Okay, so after I posted my message last night, I did a google search for Klez and got the Norton site. I ran their "fixklex" program. But would that not work since I have McAfee? Or does it make a difference?

The Norton program ran and said "klez was not found on your site."

I haven't read through all the posts yet, but I saw someone (I think Rosie) ask how I knew I had "klez."

I periodically have been getting back "message-not delivered" emails for emails I never sent. That's when I installed McAffee a couple of weeks ago.

A friend who is also on the pool Board has gotten some weird messages from "me." I've also received from "him" a couple of times an email that said "look at my new game" with an attachment (which I knew not to open). But he didn't send it. We're on the same cable provider (Comcast). He says Comcast has told him it's not in their system. But I heard Glenn Beck say recently that "Comcast is the Anti-Christ" and I'm inclined to agree. (It's bad enough that some days I actually miss AOL).

Last night I got an email back from the County school website. I have not emailed them, but I went to their site Tuesday night trying to find Corin Jrs' home work assignments (they used to post the math textbook online). The email says that "we did not open your email to us because we detected klez."

Right after I got that was when I posted the email to Bear.

Hi Corin, Rosie, everyone... sorry I'm late!

Corin, I think Rosie has figured out the klez problem... if you've run both McAfee and Norton on your system and they're saying you don't have klez, then you probably don't have it. Having McAfee on your system should not prevent the Norton utility from running. But, just to check, have you downloaded the latest virus info update from the McAfee website? Also, you may want to download the Norton utility onto a clean disk at work and take it home (if it fits on a floppy). Then, copy protect it and use that disk to run on your system.

By the way, have you shut your system off, and turned it back on? If you have and it came up, then that's a good sign.

As for viewing email headers, most email programs have an option to let you view the "full header"... in Netscape email it's View -> Headers -> All. Not sure what it would be in other email programs, but the idea is similar. As for reading the email header, well, they're kind of arcane; and I'm not sure it would tell you the real source of the email anyway. Likely, the best you could get out of it would be the name of the ISP's email server, but if whoever has the virus has the same ISP as you do, then that won't tell you much unfortunately.

Anyway, glad that you apparently don't have klez!